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Can Egyptian hieroglyphs be compared to Chinese scripts?

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So, we can see even now that Sinographs and Hieroglyphs do not work the same way . Both languages could not ... Chinese is monosyllabic (or according to some philologists, sesquisyllabic), while Egyptian is polysyllabic like English. In simpler terms ... Let's compare to the criteria mentioned above. read more

And there is also no evidence that Chinese ideograms had any foreign source. It is possible that the idea of writing got tramsmitted. Or that Central Asian tribes got the idea of sending coded messages that were short of a full writing system, but inspired the Chinese. read more

The beginnings of writing systems of the Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian heiroglyphs, Chinese sinograms and Mayan glyphs, I guess that they all developed from the pictures of TOTEM, as like the Indians' totems in North America and the Pacific Islanders' totem. read more

In Chinese, while sometimes you could reasonably assume the pronunciation of a particular character based on one of its components, you had no guarantee to ever be right and you had to ask anyway. Unlike Chinese, Egyptian was much more serious about the way its messages were supposed to be read. read more

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