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  2. List of Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    In Unicode, the block Egyptian Hieroglyphs (2009) includes 1071 signs, organization based on Gardiner's list. As of 2016, there is a proposal by Michael Everson to extend the Unicode standard to comprise Möller's list.

  3. Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (/ ˈ h aɪ r oʊ ˌ ɡ l ɪ f s / HY-roh-glifs) [1] [2] were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined ideographic , logographic , syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 1,000 distinct characters.

  4. Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptian Hieroglyphs Unicode block has 94 standardized variants defined to specify rotated signs: [3] [4]. Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to rotate 40 signs by 90°:

  5. Coptic script - Wikipedia

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    The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language, the most recent development of Egyptian. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the uncial Greek alphabet, augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic. It was the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian language.

  6. Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian - Wikipedia

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    As used for Egyptology, transliteration of Ancient Egyptian is the process of converting (or mapping) texts written as Egyptian language symbols to alphabetic symbols representing uniliteral hieroglyphs or their hieratic and demotic counterparts. This process facilitates the publication of texts where the inclusion of photographs or drawings of ...

  7. Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A - Wikipedia

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    Suignard, Michel (2018-04-17), Revised draft for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire (Hieroglyphica based) L2/19-052R: N5019R: Suignard, Michel (2019-02-09), Revised draft for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire / First Tranche: Human, God and Goddess: L2/19-220: N5063

  8. Hieratic - Wikipedia

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    Hieratic (/ h aɪ ə ˈ r æ t ɪ k /; Ancient Greek: ἱερατικά, romanized: hieratiká, lit. 'priestly') is the name given to a cursive writing system used for Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BCE until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BCE.

  9. 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 ...