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Egyptian writing - Coggle Diagram
Egyptian writing
Primary Scripts
Hieroglyphs
Basic writing system with around 500 common symbols
carved on stone in temples and tombs or on statues and sarcophagi
translates as "sacred carving"
Ideograms
represent the thing it depicts
Phonograms
represent the sounds that make up a word
determinatives
show that the symbol preceding them is a phonogram
read in the direction the symbols face
Hieratic
very similar to cursive hieroglyphic
could be written in columns or rows
columns only for religious texts
written with ink on papyrus, leather, or wood
Afroasiatic Language Family
Egyptian
Middle Egyptian
c. 2100 BC
AKA Classical Egyptian
Remained the standard hieroglyphic language for the rest of ancient Egyptian History
written in hieratic
Old Egyptian
c. 2600 BC
Earliest recorded Egyptian written language
written in hieroglyphs
Late Egyptian
c. 1350 BC
Differed substantially from previous phases of Egyptian language, particularly in grammar
Demotic
c. 700 BC
Developed from Late Egyptian
Survived as a written language until the 5th century AD
more cursive and abbreviated
mostly written with ink on papyrus
Coptic
c. AD 300
closely related to Demotic
created when Egyptians adopted Christianity
alphabet has 32 letters