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Hieroglyphic Alphabet

hieroglyphs

 

Hieroglyphs are word pictures which represent the sounds of the Ancient Egyptian language.

There are two basic types of hieroglyphs: IDEOGRAMS and PHONOGRAMS. Often the same image can be both an ideogram and a phonogram.

IDEOGRAMS are images that depict the object they represent. For example the image of a mouth can represent the word 'mouth'.

PHONOGRAMS are images that represent the sounds of the Ancient Egyptian language, just like our alphabet represents the sound of our language. For example, the image of a mouth can also represent the sound 'R'.

 

Hieroglyphic Alphabet

Our simplified Hieroglyphic Alphabet below is designed for fun to let you translate English words into Hieroglyphs.

Before you translate your words into hieroglyphs, break them down into their basic sounds of their syllables.

For example, the word hieroglyph itself has ten letters but only eight sounds: h-i-r-o-g-l-y-f. Therefore, you would only need eight hieroglyphs to represent it.

Treat all double letters as single sounds. That should help you cut back on the number of hieroglyphs you need to use.

Sometimes the same hieroglyph is used to represent different letters. If that happens, change the colour of the hieroglyphs to avoid confusion.

Arrange your hieroglyphs to create interesting designs rather than the straight lines that we use to arrange our letters and sentences.

 

You can click on the letters, sounds and symbols below to quickly find their closest hieroglyphic match.



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