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How many symbols are there in Egyptian Hieroglyphs writing?

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That’s seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-six Egyptian hieroglyphs and so I do believe that a general off-hand reply of “some eight thousand” would not be off point. read more

Egyptian Hieroglyphics had no alphabet as we know it, They had a 4 systems of symbols: uniliterals, biliterals, triliterals, and logographs: 24 uniliterals (symbols that stood for single consonants, much like English letters but with no vowels). read more

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'. (Note that ꜣ (, two half-rings opening to the left), sometimes replaced by the digit '3', is the Egyptian alef). read more

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