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What was the name of egyptians writing system and how was it different from ours?
it's called 'hieroglyphics' - and used pictures to represent words or phrases.
How does Mayan writing differ from the alphabet?
In the Mayan writing system each symbol represents words and pictures, where as our writing system just shows words.
How do you spell heirgliphics?
The correct spelling of the term is "hieroglyphics" (ancient Egyptian pictograph writing).
What is it called when you use pictures instead of words that starts with h?
The term you’re looking for is "hieroglyphics." Hieroglyphics are a writing system that uses symbolic pictures or characters to represent words, sounds, or concepts, and were famously used in ancient Egypt.
What was the name of the egyptians evolved a writing system that used pictographs to represent words and sounds?
Hieroglyphic writing system.
What type of characters represent whole words in the Japanese writing system?
Kanji characters. Kanji characters are logographic characters that represent whole words or ideas in the Japanese writing system.
What word is for the hieroglyphics?
Hieroglyphics is a word used to describe a specific kind of writing. When writing in this style, you use pictures or symbols that represent whole words.
What was the Mayas form of writing called?
Mayas used pictures called hieroglyphics. They represent sounds, and with them any words in the Maya language could be written. Their writing system consisted of 800 symbols or Glyphs. From these, 700 represented whole words, they look like objects they represent, and 100 were syllable signs, used to spell out a word, syllable by syllable.
How is hieroglyphic writing different from our writing today?
Hieroglyphic writing uses pictures and symbols to represent sounds, words, or ideas, while our writing today primarily uses letters to represent sounds and words. Additionally, hieroglyphic writing was typically written in rows or columns, and could be read from left to right or right to left, depending on the direction of the symbols.
What is the writing system composed of?
A writing system is composed of symbols or characters that represent sounds, words, or concepts in a language. It typically includes alphabets (which represent individual sounds), syllabaries (which represent syllables), and logograms (which represent words or morphemes). Writing systems can be phonetic, where symbols correspond to phonemes, or ideographic, where symbols convey ideas or concepts. Examples include the Latin alphabet, Chinese characters, and the Devanagari script.
Did writing begin in Egypt or Mesopotamia?
it began in Egypt and It began in Egypt and the Egyptian writing called hieroglyphics used pictures to represent different objects, actions, sound or ideas. There were more than 700 hieroglyphs. Some pictures stood for whole words.
Chinese writing uses?
Characters that represent words or ideas Characters that represent words or ideas Characters that represent words or ideas
