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  2. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

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    The Précis identified hundreds of hieroglyphic words, described differences between hieroglyphs and other scripts, analysed proper names and the uses of cartouches and described some of the language's grammar. Champollion was moving from deciphering a script to translating the underlying language.

  3. Ancient Egyptian literature - Wikipedia

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    Hieroglyphics was known as the script of kings. It had a phonetic resemblance to Greek characters. The knowledge of hieroglyphic writing among the Copts people is even believed to have survived up until the 7th century. Egyptian hieroglyphics were believed to be letters with a phonetic aspect and use to represent ideas.

  4. Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian hieroglyphic writing does not normally indicate vowels, unlike cuneiform, and for that reason has been labelled by some as an abjad, i.e., an alphabet without vowels. Thus, hieroglyphic writing representing a pintail duck is read in Egyptian as sꜣ, derived from the main consonants of the Egyptian word for this duck: 's', 'ꜣ' and 't'.

  5. Cursive hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    Cursive hieroglyphs, or hieroglyphic book hand, are a form of Egyptian hieroglyphs commonly used for handwritten religious documents, such as the Book of the Dead. [1] This style of writing was typically written with ink and a reed brush on papyrus , wood, or leather. [ 1 ]

  6. Demotic (Egyptian) - Wikipedia

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    It is inscribed with a proclamation, written in three scripts: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic, and the Greek alphabet. There are 32 lines of Demotic, which is the middle of the three scripts on the stone. The Demotic was deciphered before the hieroglyphs, starting with the efforts of Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy. Scholars were eventually able ...

  7. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Hieroglyphs were commonly thought to be ideographic before they were translated, and to this day, Chinese is often erroneously said to be ideographic. [1] In some cases of ideographic scripts, only the author of a text can read it with any certainty, and it may be said that they are interpreted rather than read. Such scripts often work best as ...

  8. Mesoamerican writing systems - Wikipedia

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    The goal of encoding Maya hieroglyphs in Unicode is to facilitate the modern use of the script. For representing the degree of flexibility and variation of classical Maya, the expressiveness of Unicode is insufficient (e.g., wrt. the representation of infixes), so, for philological applications, different technologies are required.

  9. Proto-Sinaitic script - Wikipedia

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    The inscriptions are graphically very similar to the Serabit inscriptions, but show a greater hieroglyphic influence, such as a glyph for a man that was apparently not read alphabetically: [20] The first of these (h 1) is a figure of celebration [Gardiner A28], whereas the second (h 2) is either that of a child [Gardiner A17] or of dancing ...