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The ancient Egyptians did not use the term hieroglyphs - for them it was simply "writing".

In hieroglyphs, the word for writing is drf or sS.

drf is spelled out with a hand [d], a mouth [r] and a horned viper [f], plus the papyrus rolll for abstract nouns.

sS is written with the hieroglyph for a scribe's writing kit (ink pot, paints and pen case) plus the papyrus roll determinative.

Modern Egyptologists use the letter e for all the vowels not recorded in Egyptian writing - so they pronounce these words as "deref" and "sesh" - but we can not know ho they were said by the ancient Egyptians.

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