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Hieroglyphic writing
So you want to write like an Egyptian, huh? Hieroglyphs are
pictures that were used to write the ancient Egyptian language. In
the beginning hieroglyphic signs were used to keep records of the
king's possessions. Scribes could easily make these records by
drawing a picture of a cow or a boat followed by a number.
Eventually the language consisted of more then 750 individual
signs.
As in other languages, words in Egyptian were made up of sounds,
partly of consonants and partly of vowels. But, the writing of
hieroglyphs constantly ignored and omitted vowels. Thus the two
signs which represent "mt", could be read as met, mat, amta, emt or
any other combinations of vowels and "mt". Since the ancient
language has never been heard, we are not sure how this word would
be pronounced. In order to avoid this, we need a method of writing
and pronouncing these glyphs consistently . The course usually
adopted is to use the English vowel "e" and in a some cases "a"
between the two glyphs. So we can pronounce as "met".
The pronunciation of a word is the crucial element in using
hieroglyphics, how a word sounds is more important then how it is
spelled. For instance, the word that is spelled "cat" is actually
pronounced "kat". The name that is spelled "Cleopatra" is
pronounced "Kliopadra". So, these word would be written in
hieroglyphs the way they sound. Because the words "where" and
"wear" sound alike they could be written using the same
hieroglyphic signs. The same could be said of the words "there" and
"their".
Hieroglyphics are more then just a way of writing, they are also
pictures, and as such they are meant to be esthetically pleasing.
The picture signs can be written from right to left; from left to
right; or vertically, reading downwards. To determine which way to
read a line of hieroglyphs, look for pictures of men or animals.
See which way the pictures are facing, the text is read towards the
faces. If they are facing to the left, the inscription is read from
the left to the right. If they are facing right, the inscription is
read from right to left.