Ancient Egyptian Forum

PharoahKel · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 12:38 pm Post subject: Reading hieroglyphics

Can anybody read hieroglyphics? ive been learning but im doing it online because i lack the funding to take a course, but does anyone know a really good website to learn? and if u know it fluently, how did u learn and how long did it take? i only know the basics so far Very Happy

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PharoahKel · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 12:40 pm Post subject:

and is hieroglyphics a spoken language?
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Meritaton · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 9:05 pm Post subject:

Most of us can read them a little, I can only read names & some titles & some words. Ancient Egyptian was a spoken language but it's pronunciation isn't known now.

PharoahKel · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 1:40 pm Post subject:

thanx for the help!
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Dark_Meryetamun_28 · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 5:55 pm Post subject:

There are books that teach you how to read ancient Egyptian and how to pronounce it, apparently. I got one for Christmas. Go check them out on an online store like www.amazon.com
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Chenoa · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:16 am Post subject:

I can read them and sort of speak them.I learned by this book Understanding Hieroglyphs.
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Tadukhipa · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 12:48 am Post subject:

Does anyone know of any really good books? I'd love to learn sometime.
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Dark_Meryetamun_28 · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 7:09 pm Post subject:

I'm giving you a couple books I looked up.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520239490/qid=1062097292/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-4383308-2900621?v=glance&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1903296250/qid=1062097506/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-4383308-2900621?v=glance&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0811832252/qid=1062097506/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-4383308-2900621?v=glance&s=books

Need anymore? Go to the search:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dbooks%26field-keywords%3DHow%20to%20Read%20Egyptian%20Hieroglyphs%26url%3Dindex%3Dbooks%26store-name%3Dbooks/103-4383308-2900621
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Tadukhipa · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:01 am Post subject:

Thanks! Have you read any of them? I think I might look into my library to see if they have anything. I'm kinda cheap cash-wise... Razz

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Dark_Meryetamun_28 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 3:38 pm Post subject:

the one at the top looks like mine, and it was not that hard to understand. The others were just part of the search. I just realized I put all of the search items in there, so you couldn't get more from that serach if you wanted to! Embarassed

Well, all you have to do is change the search.
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Meritaton · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 5:05 pm Post subject:

At first, check out some websites and learn the basics. With that you can decide whether you want to learn more.

for beginners:

http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/glyphs_1.html

this is where I learnt most of what I know:

http://www.fnspo.cz/mmm/egypt/hiero/1.htm

another page:

http://www.manchesteregypt.freeserve.co.uk/archives/hg-ds/PrctlHroglyphs.htm

a cool program:

http://www.programurl.com/education_hieronote.htm