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Egyptian Hieroglyphics
People often refer to Hieroglyphics as the ancient Egyptian language in fact
Hieroglyphics is only a form of writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs
are the pictures used to write the Egyptian language which consisted of more
than 750 individual signs.There were three forms to write the Egyptian
language :Hieroglyphics:
The form found on monuments, and some papyri. It is made up of pictures
which make up words. The ancient Egyptians called their script mdju netjer,
or "words of the gods." Hieroglyphs were the earliest form of Egyptian
script. Hieroglyphics changed over time. It began with one symbol for each
word then symbols were combined to form words.
Hieratic: This is
script hieroglyphics. It's form varied over the centuries. Pictures were
reduced to lines and squiggles to make writing quicker.
Demotic:
This was a later script version of Egyptian language which was not based on
hieroglyphics, but was phonetic. Demotic means "the people's writing." It
got this name because many people could read it ,The first hieroglyphs
appear on labels and pottery objects dated to about 3100 BCE in the late
Predynastic Period, and the last glyphs appear on the island of Philae in a
temple inscription carved in 394 ACE. Originally, hieroglyphs were used to
write different kinds of texts on different surfaces, but as hieratic
developed, hieroglyphic script became confined to religious and monumental
useage, mostly carved in stone. The Greeks called the script hiera grammata,
"the sacred letters," or ta hieroglyphica "the sacred carved letters."
