''How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs'' is a
primer on understanding
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs (, ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with some 1,000 distinct characters.There were about 1, ...
. The text was written by
Mark Collier (Egyptologist), and
Bill Manley
Bill(s) may refer to:
Common meanings
* Banknote, paper cash (especially in the United States)
* Bill (law), a proposed law put before a legislature
* Invoice, commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer
* Bill, a bird or animal's beak
Plac ...
, c. 1998.
The standard version of analytic Egyptian hieroglyphs is based upon the 26 categories of the
Gardiner's Sign List
Gardiner's Sign List is a list of common Egyptian hieroglyphs compiled by Sir Alan Gardiner. It is considered a standard reference in the study of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Gardiner lists only the common forms of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but h ...
(about 700 signs), still the basic standard. According to WorldCat, the book is widely known and is held in 1062 libraries.
[http://www.worldcat.org/title/how-to-read-egyptian-hieroglyphs-a-step-by-step-guide-to-teach-yourself/oclc/39188707&referer=brief_results ] ''How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs'' uses a simple approach with just six categories:
* Signs depicting people or parts of the human body
* Signs depicting creatures or parts of their bodies
* Signs depicting sky, earth, water or plants
* Other small signs
* Other tall signs
* Other broad signs
With the older styles and outlines of hieroglyphs being redone and rethought by modern Egyptologists, new approaches to books on the
Egyptian language
The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts which were made accessible to the modern world following the decipher ...
and the hieroglyphs have been tried.
References
*
Collier, Mark, and
Manley, Bill, ''How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs'', c 1998, University of California Press, 179 pp, (with a ''word Glossary'', p 151-61: Title Egyptian-English vocabulary; also an "Answer Key", 'Key to the exercises', p 162–73) (hardcover, )
Modern Egyptian hieroglyphs books
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