Hieroglyph
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- | "The history of the various [[primitive graphic system]]s, such as the [[Chinese]], the [[Cuneiform]], or the [[Egyptian]], shows that the [[art of writing]] has invariably begun with [[hieroglyph]]]ic [[ideograms]], slowly developed into [[Phonogram (linguistics)|phonograms]], and passing gradually through [[syllabism]] towards [[alphabet]]ism, the successive stages of the process occupying in every instance vast periods of time."--''[[The History of the Alphabet]]'' (1899) by Isaac Taylor | + | "The history of the various [[primitive graphic system]]s, such as the [[Chinese]], the [[Cuneiform]], or the [[Egyptian]], shows that the [[art of writing]] has invariably begun with [[hieroglyph]]ic [[ideograms]], slowly developed into [[Phonogram (linguistics)|phonograms]], and passing gradually through [[syllabism]] towards [[alphabet]]ism, the successive stages of the process occupying in every instance vast periods of time."--''[[The History of the Alphabet]]'' (1899) by Isaac Taylor |
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"The history of the various primitive graphic systems, such as the Chinese, the Cuneiform, or the Egyptian, shows that the art of writing has invariably begun with hieroglyphic ideograms, slowly developed into phonograms, and passing gradually through syllabism towards alphabetism, the successive stages of the process occupying in every instance vast periods of time."--The History of the Alphabet (1899) by Isaac Taylor |
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A hieroglyph (Greek for "hieros" (sacred) "glyph" (carving) is a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyphs". In Neoplatonism, especially during the Renaissance, a "hieroglyph" was an artistic representation of an esoteric idea, which Neoplatonists believed actual Egyptian hieroglyphs to be. The word hieroglyphics (τὰ ἱερογλυφικά) may refer to a hieroglyphic script.
List of hieroglyphic scripts
The following scripts have been called "hieroglyphs".
- Anatolian hieroglyphs
- Cretan hieroglyphs
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Mayan hieroglyphs
- Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs
- Olmec hieroglyphs
See also