How to write Alphabet in Egyptian hieroglyphs

How to write Alphabet in Egyptian hieroglyphs

[@maf.eats2024]

The stress of writing what the teacher is dictating. Only 50 B.C. Egyptian kids can relate.

[@ambrosiusdaniskaunang]

😂😂😂 but that's looks fun and artistic

[@bea651]

This is the first thing that crossed my mind I swear lol

[@maple1444]

50 BC egyptian gang!!

[@maf.eats2024]

@@ambrosiusdaniskaunang yeah! Especially the letters that are written as birds! 😍

[@gemgem24able]

I actually wonder how the Chinese and the Japanese handle dictations, given that some characters have 9 or more strokes and are just one syllable when pronounced.

[@humanmusic6409]

Imagine writing an essay like this and your teacher just marks it 𓆑

[@kardasii6655]

𓅓𓆙𓂻𓅰

[@zyoom8796]

How-

[@eszett8214]

w o r m

[@Leafstarshine]

:?

[@monke8613]

𓄿 𓃀 𓍿 𓂩 𓏭 𓆑 𓎼 𓉔 𓇋 𓆓 𓎡 𓂋 𓅓 𓈖 𓍯 𓊪 𓈎 𓂋 𓋴 𓏏 𓅱 𓅱 𓅱 𓐍 𓇌 𓊃

[@3fairies.3]

あなたの手書きはとても素晴らしく、たくさんの異なる言語で書く方法を知っていることに驚いています。

[@MiliaOculorus]

Que?

[@HannaBraken]

"sua escrita é muito boa e eu estou surpreso em saber que você escreve em tantas línguas"

[@MiliaOculorus]

@@HannaBraken no entiendo

[@DottyDashy]

@@MiliaOculorus *Hay algo que dice* _traducir al español_

[@MiliaOculorus]

@@DottyDashy a si xd

[@Daichifan1]

Shoutout to this guy. He went back thousands of years to learn these in order to show us how to. This takes real dedication

[@zizo3132]

𓅓𓇋𓇌𓃀𓇋 𓈖𓋴𓏏

[@_._616]

​@@zizo3132⚓⚰️🦿🦾🦷🫁👅🪳🦓🦓🦞🦞🕸️🦧🦧🦧🗿🗿🗿

[@shl24yw89]

Ancient egyptian teacher: Write a 1000 words essay Me writing it:

[@nitwuki]

at that point you're taking an art class, not a history class

[@adamwashington273]

Well, God bless you all folks.

[@mokhtaramran7041]

Most of the literate would be using a popular script or demotic. Only artisans annointed by a priest would be using this script. So, yes. This is art.

[@muizrahim861]

Ancient egyptian teacher: Write a 1000 words essay. Me: ok. Ancient egyptian teacher: You got one hour. Me:💀

[@wouldntyouliketoknowweathe19]

Well a picture is worth a 1000 words so technicaly it's pretty easy...

[@mateuszsliwa8193]

Americans: Hey, how's going? The ancient Egyptians: 🐦🏀🦉🦶🐤🐍🟥

[@potatosalad5355]

Ha, ha, ha ...!!!! Make my day...!!!

[@aizuni]

Wait this is actually so cute

[@thelordnaevis4946]

Me trying to figure out what it actually means

[@asmaahezema4084]

Yeah it's our great language 🌸🇪🇬👑

[@samuellacher6423]

_XMB_JP?

[@user-SecondStick]

｢これ元々は文字だったんですよ｣と言えば明らかに絵っぽいものも何でもキレイに書きそう

[@garlikbred6474]

This makes me even more proud of the egyptian people who carved hieroglyphs into temples. It was already hard with carving the stone and with how high up the words reach - but with letters like these, it must've taken forever. Lotsa patience and skill they had

[@Lilgattnocap]

Ra: how many birds do u want in ur language? Ancient Egyptians: Y E S

[@toliklak3155]

actually 5

[@arthuraraujo3608]

BIRD TIME

[@misscandura]

🗣🗣🗣

[@evanseifert8858]

@@toliklak3155 U, V and W are all represented by the same character here. Distinct characters represented by birds would be A, M and U, so three.

[@toliklak3155]

@@evanseifert8858 but 5

[@aswan7854]

Guys, these are not the Arabic letters these are hieroglyph letters. The language of ancient Egypt was different from the current language. The ancient Egyptians didn't speak Arabic. The current Egyptians speak Arabic. Please recognise!

[@ahmadal_shanqeety802]

Ancient Egypt didn't spoke Egyptian, it's like saying Chinese spoke Chinese There was more than 35 seperate languages spoke in ancient Egypt with many forms of writing, with 3 to 4 forms of heigrolyph and it wasn't used by all Egyptians

[@Afroguitarist-ed2zt]

This is true and there are more forms of hieroglyphs that were native to africa not just Egypt.

[@FalconWindblader]

@@ahmadal_shanqeety802 Dude's not wrong though. 'Egyptian' in this case doesn't have to mean a single language; it could mean a FAMILY of languages instead, just like the case with Chinese. Regardless, those ancient & now mostly dead languages were related to each other somehow, yet modern Egyptians speak something else entirely different altogether & of foreign origin. By the way, thanks for informing that there were more than one variety of Egyptian back then.

[@AlphineWolf]

Ancient Chinese kinda looked similar actually. Pictographs that looked like pictures rather than letters

[@janellandrea]

I'm surprised that you even need to clarify that...

[@fatma0k]

as an Egyptian i'd say my ancestors were really cool

[@thememeguy2195]

A- bird B- a foot C- unfinished pp D- stick E- two parallel lines F- slug G- tongue with a triangle on it H- unfinished rectangle I- a knife J- a smoke signal, idk K- a pringle chip L- oval M- owl N- MMMMM O- necklace P- rectangle Q- hill R- fatter oval S- hook T- semicircle U- less detailed bird V- U W- V X- circle with lines Y- *TWO* knives Z- belt

[@ahmedfadlemam7485]

I- a feather not knife

[@bozydarziemniak1853]

@@ahmedfadlemam7485 J is a snake

[@jamestanny849]

pringle 😂

[@cse03raghuveerawankar31]

Kid drawing bird snakes and some random designs. The Ancient Egyptian: You are a nice poet

[@someshkharat5667]

Daaaam 😂😂

[@devolution811]

😂😂

[@4zl]

These are not just snakes and birds, each of these letters carries stories, sermons and authority, we are talking about letters since more than 5 thousand years BC, the drawing did not exist then.

[@rico-228]

@@4zl joke is about that

[@jitensmail7326]

@@4zl r/woooooooosh

[@notnoches]

me, a russian speaker, at 2am: **watching japanese guy write ancient egyptian hieroglyphs while having video title in english**

[@user-dv6dp7jn1j]

Ахахх

[@akarui2602]

Same from Spain 😂❤️

[@anamariatinico4702]

Same frm Mxcity 🤓

[@fsneto19]

To me the title are in portuguese, my mother language.

[@pluplume29]

From France ;)

[@jasonk795]

When I was about 8 years old we had an Encycloped set I used to look through all the time. I came across an image of the Rosetta stone. I didn't know what it was but when I seen the hieroglyphs I was fascinated. With a magnifying glass I copied into a notebook every glyph line for line. I self figured out it reads top to bottom. Spent hours.

[@delvesdg]

I had the World Book Encyclopedia set at my house growing up. This was in the early to mid 1990s. The set was fairly old. The US Presidents ended with Carter still in office so it had to be the 1980/81 edition, lol. In the beginning of every book the was the English letter as well as the Greek and Egyptian glyph. I remember memorizing most of the letters as well as the periodic table of elements. 🤓

[@user-fm1qv2dm9s]

ちょうど書き順分からなくて困ってたところで見つけました！ありがたいです！

[@Ian-hi5vz]

I love how the letters range from simple geometric shapes to B I R D.

[@gabgab723]

dont forget about lil snek

[@Name-eg1uf]

It was a snail

[@joshuhigashikata9201]

@@Name-eg1uf where's his lil home at ? :(

[@Name-eg1uf]

@@joshuhigashikata9201 somehow I forgot that its called a slug

[@pxme.granate]

The character for j could be a lil snek

[@wafllffe7291]

can we all just take a minute to appreciate the greatness of this mans handwriting

[@maddogz671]

Maybe drawing instead

[@g4bri3l.]

A drawing

[@noamie7836]

If it's text then it's writing not drawing

[@uraszz]

Finally, thank you

[@janjamesramos247]

maybe only seconds..

[@MarleyBu]

Love ancient Egyptian stuff. These guys were waaayyyy ahead of their time. Simply incredible artists. ❤

[@lottythekidd-beats]

respect to this man, he teleported to ancient egypt and learned some hieroglyphs.

[@eccentricstate]

Everybody’s gangster until the bird gang shows up at the end

[@a-bird-lover]

bird gang bird gang

[@Cosmic_Bald-e]

Imagine getting eaten by birds -this comment was made by spoilled bread gang.

[@a-bird-lover]

@@Cosmic_Bald-e don't feed birds bread it's very bad for them :(

[@Cosmic_Bald-e]

@@a-bird-lover Dont worry I dont do that because if i did they would peck my hand first then go for whatever food i have on me.

[@user-kv5fw7xz9c]

@@a-bird-lover Lil Pump - Bird Gang!

[@nicogsusgsus1866]

Wow i didn't realize that lots of classmates wrote the letter "c" on my books. I thought it was something else

[@afoxwithahat7846]

I was hoping for a comment like this

[@larap.4298]

Same here, what a relief

[@thelordnaevis4946]

Not the “c” 😭

[@Northtamilland]

@Горан Цеста C=s k

[@KutsaiChan]

𓂸

[@silviaa677]

It's not just handwriting, it's an art

[@penguinarmyroblox1311]

Dude, this guy saved my history grade. I need to do a mind map on this and he just saved me.

[@discombobulateddiscoball66]

Teacher: Class, what is the first letter of the alphabet? Class: “A” Me, an intellectual: Actually, it’s *bird*

[@abdusalomabdukayumov8640]

Lol

[@cybear3387]

Actually, it's A bird

[@betterwe602]

🤣👌

[@abdusalomabdukayumov8640]

@@cybear3387 So you are the “that guy”

[@uj4862]

It's a plane

[@Monker4444]

L and R are just chilling like bros. And meanwhile U, V, and W are all just the pointing spidermans meme.

[@keriper3018]

What's the different between L and R?

[@Zuru422]

A is also a pointing spiderman.

[@loidnoakes]

@@Zuru422 nah A is sitting on the throne while u,v,w worship it

[@StickStep]

Well, okay, I knew story behind u,v,w why they are same, but L and R are confusing me

[@Zuru422]

@@StickStep L and R are both little eye-shaped letters but without the pupils and iris. I'll put a timestamp.

[@anilshirsat4406]

I will like to call it, 'Avian Alphabets' . Hand writing is admirable 👍 Just enjoyed the voyage to Ancient Greek Era.😊

[@Vamsi30107]

I'm glad that ancient Egyptian is a phonetic language where they omitted the Vowels and had separate symbols for complex sounds like "nkh" or "sheuf". Imagine writing all this like in art class instead of language class

[@dantehernandez7839]

Imagine writing egyptian hieroglyphics in cursive

[@idealthinker101]

Seriously underrated comment !

[@mitab1]

There's a resaon why alot of people couldn't write or read

[@K1z0ku]

May I introduce you to Hieratic

[@dantehernandez7839]

@@K1z0ku WHAT THE HELL THIS IS ACTUALLY REAL thats awesome

[@diino8081]

@@K1z0ku i just searched it and man that’s epic

[@seanpatricktan4836]

I like how they didn't use a simple one for 'A' so people can decide to stop learning early.

[@le_sloth]

😂😂✋

[@mctartaglia615]

Looked pretty simple to me

[@muhammad_fahmi_ilma]

Lololol

[@prestallar4339]

But were they written in alphabetical order, like ABC, back then?

[@adapienkowska2605]

@@prestallar4339 back then they didn't have vowels, but the bird sign was the first letter of their 'alphabet', it was just a consonant sound.

[@theartgallery4527]

この言語で書くのは素晴らしいです

[@user-uv5ln6ci7f]

昔万博で「あなたの名前をヒエログリフのローマ字で書いたパピルスを差し上げます」っていうのをエジプト舘でしてもらったら、本名がAが入るやつばかりだから途中から書いてるエジプトの方がoh…みたいな顔になったのが面白かった。A鳥ばかりでした。

[@kwinkardd]

Kindergartens and kindergarten teachers watching this be like: Teacher: who could spell "BEE" Students: a leg and 4 slashes

[@PhanJustin]

🦵\\\\

[@pan.nanana3044]

@@PhanJustin oh mah ghaaaaad

[@MigWith]

^^^^^^➰

[@alertmottoes6413]

@@MigWith 🚩🚩\\👁

[@solidliquid6696]

Yes, now spell "MAMMOTH"

[@alessandroscarrone]

How many birds do you want in your alphabet? Egyptians: "Yes"

[@bangladeshmapper3407]

Any Snakes, worms, owls, legs or creepy eyes? Ancient Egyptians: Yes

[@itsastikbotparty8149]

“How many birds do you want in your alphabet?” Egyptians: 5.

[@thehoyaho]

😂

[@arezanmusic]

Just don't like, trust me

[@whatever8554]

"5"

[@molfrit395]

I really appreciate the greatness of your handwriting, and I was wondering if you could do one with Tifinagh (Amazigh alphabet), with your cool handwriting, it would be awesome, and by the way, it dates to the same period as ancient egyptian thank you

[@jonida]

You made it look easy to write. I cannot imagine a timed exam during ancient egypt.

[@Nightdreaux22647]

Well there was no timed exam during ancient egypt. You just go straight to work since 5 years old. And drag the pyramid stone blocks above 10 years old.

[@jonida]

@@Nightdreaux22647 wrong, pyramid stones are made from scarab beetle dung. They wet those with Nile water and poof just like popcorn and slowly hardens like the heart of Putin. 🤔🤔🤔

[@privatepenguin2496]

Imagine writing your whole history test in heiroglyphs and the teacher be like: 👁️👄👁️⁉️ F

[@sagisdoodleverse9696]

I want to do that

[@user-cz8tz4qz8n]

Well you’d just be making yourself lose so lol

[@tenerife_sea]

F? you mean 🐌 right

[@SRTBahndosi]

“Imagine yourself as an ancient Egyptian and write a diary entry”

[@Abilliph]

@@stxwbby actually it's supposed to be a horned snake... Go figure..:)

[@marjosephreyes4733]

Imagine you are angry ang you want to express what you feel by writing "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" on the wall. By the time you finished writing it you probably not angry anymore.

[@arthuraraujo3608]

🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@KinBDutMean]

Bruh... Hahahhahaha

[@fyn3422]

Very interesting when I look at it in terms of frequency and energy , its like the sounds of the letters for each glyph are a part of its manifestation to what it symbolises

[@darkkl]

Everyone: *talking about how many birds are there in the egyptian hieroglyphics* Me: why does the C look like-

[@redacted1707]

“How to Get your Teachers to Hate You” Step 1: watch this video Step 2: Keep watching it till every letter is burned into you brain Step 3: start writing your work in hieroglyphs Step 4: glare at your teacher when handing it in Step 5: be proud, you learned a whole new alphabet and pissed off all or most of your teachers

[@LuminaNinetales]

You know, they will just never bother correcting that.

[@insanlutfi]

Just write the essay and encrypt it somewhere

[@hase3008]

It's not an alphabet tho

[@finalpeace3304]

You F 😂😂😂😆😆

[@kuro758]

Do you even understand the difference between alphabets & hierogylphs?

[@bissyballistic]

Towards the end of the script the egyptians were just like: “MORE BIRDS”

[@Swan234]

If this was correct there would only be 3 birds, w and u are the same letter, not separated as this pictures and there shouldn't be a "V" at all

[@stuartdparnell]

uvw are all 'u' it made me eye-bird-eye

[@TrueFork]

@@Swan234 so how did they text uwu?

[@addali150]

@@TrueFork they didn't. If they tried they would be sacrificed to uwusiris

[@Wall_flower]

I read this as “MORBIUS”

[@norhanhany9034]

I am Egyptian and i study all of this you do it so great I really love it you so amazing

[@user-ij4fm8kd2m]

こうしてみると、日常使いできる文字の気がしてきます。

[@hodgepodge581]

This pen will automatically make my handwriting gorgeous and unlock all my potential for creativity, I just know it

[@_IVXX]

The key is less about the pen and more about how he takes his time

[@KKIcons]

I must buy it.

[@gavinreed4343]

the sarasa pen is incredible i can vouch

[@SeraRene]

Okay but isn’t it cool how the ‘A’ glyph literally forms an A?

[@ghuito8202]

It might not be too far of a coincidence. Egyptian Alphabet was an evolution from Egyptian Geroglyphs, which later influenced Greek Alphabet, which later influenced Latin Alphabet.

[@a-bird-lover]

if I remember correctly, our letter A actually comes from an egyptian hieroglyph of an ox. It's a cow :D

[@lmao5070]

N is realy interesting too

[@fathfez7991]

@@a-bird-lover I thought it was a bird

[@a-bird-lover]

@@fathfez7991 nope. kzbin.info/www/bejne/baCUiHaGadmMgJY

[@ytghost8982]

It really went from: 🐦, to 💁‍♂️, then🪱, to〰️ and ◻️, then back to🐦 again

[@Silvanagirgis]

As an Egyptian I really liked your handwriting❤

[@elmosanica]

The hieroglyphs maker was too eiger at making A that it took too much time, he made the next ones simpler. But the supervisor came in to check when he made M.

[@Cross64786]

And then the SV left again, and start to make another simpler one

[@williamkhoa]

the difference between V and W haunts me every night

[@ezazpiano]

U,V, and W

[@ayuyohanes7149]

How about L and R? Lol

[@yazekami4656]

@@ayuyohanes7149 L is the smaller one R is the bigger one its like comparing twins that have difference in size

[@yazekami4656]

And the difference in U,V,W is the beak and the fat

[@pia_mater]

Ancient Egyptian doesn't have the V sound (idk why he included it in the video) and W and U are witten with the same letter because they sound similar (like in Arabic, Hebrew and other languages of the region)

[@Z_nix]

Isn't that strange that English language has 26 alphabets and Egyptian language also has 26. Plus, English and Egyptian language have same alphabets just the representation is different.

[@SOUTH_ASIAN]

Writing in Egyptian is like making a drawing.

[@alscheep5521]

as someone who's obsessed with ancient Egypt, some of these aren't exactly accurate;; if you're trying to write actual ancient symbols used in stuff like artifacts and organ jars, then this isn't the right alphabet. the most obvious thing that tells me this is the symbol for L, which should be a lion laying down, not. that. I don't know how to describe it. it's kinda like modern Japan in a way, that multiple alphabets are used at once, the difference being that they were exclusive to some social castes.

[@axil424]

I was about to comment the same thing! I too am obsessed with Egypt. One thing to keep in mind when writing their alphabet is that there are multiple symbols for some of the letters. This is because their alphabet is based on sounds rather than just symbols. Take “a” for example. I know of 2 symbols that work for “a”. One is the symbol depicted in this video. Another is an arm. The one in this video would represent a tall “a” while the arm represents the flat “a”. Does this make sense? I would like to see a corrected version of this video if possible…

[@moneteherring6095]

I was just about to say the samething. I took a whole gifted and talented summer course on Ancient Egypt. While you did a great job just do a bit more research to get the correct pictures for the letters.

[@K1z0ku]

Noticed the "L" thing too (because I remembered that "Cleopatra" had a lion for an "L"). But most of the consonants seem to be in the right ballpark. Not sure about tricky ones like x, q, or c, but simple ones like b,d,f,k,m,n,p,r,s,t seem to be right.

[@rikjamesguitare]

Damn, finally I know now! I never realized they had an alphabet system. I used to think it was all pure characters, like Chinese. But this does make more sense, alphabet system + characters. More like Japanese, they utilize Kanji characters, and the hirigana and katakana alphabets. Does ancient Egypt, alongside the characters, have just one alphabet? Or more? Cheers btw for the info, learn something new everyday

[@mctartaglia615]

Yeah I remembered there being a lion for L but when they didn’t write it I was confused

[@jandor6595]

I'm ancient egyptian and I can say his handwriting is way better than mine

[@Gyan_sarwopare]

Really are you egyptian?

[@jandor6595]

@@Gyan_sarwopare I don't know if it matters but no

[@PetoUi-uf5ox]

​@@Gyan_sarwopareI am an Egyptian Coptic who remained clinging to his identity in the face of the Arab encroachment And their invasions

[@_._616]

Aɴᴅ I ʟɪᴠᴇ ɪɴsɪᴅᴇ ᴀ ᴘʏʀᴀᴍɪᴅ 😆

[@ToastedHashbrown]

a pyramid just flew pver my house

[@gyozanomics]

For everyone who is confused, these phonograms roughly correspond to how our letters sound. They are not the where our characters are derived from. If you want to see which characters our alphabet derived from, look at the characters the Protosinaitic script borrowed for it's alphabetic writing system.

[@3ntity101]

every other letter: cool squiggles and animals P: *rectangle* 2:52 better?

[@center-page]

Really? Before you finish writing your name, the exam is over 😂😂😂

[@BTRtda]

I think so 🤣😅

[@kawaiicat3005]

XD

[@nicklasberg5146]

Nah ancient egyptian exams lasted for days 😂

[@nunoluminari7390]

@@luxinvictus9018 Yes, actually, there's no Vowels in hieroglyph. That video used '𓅱(w)' for the letter 'U' and '𓍯(something like ua/w)' for the letter 'O'

[@Phearsum]

Imagine how long it took to etch this into stone.. Let alone write it. I mean even the process of making papyrus itself is pretty tedious.

[@EnheTook50Benadryl]

@luis carlos flores Salazar ñ

[@Itz_smyrfik]

@luis carlos flores Salazar аап

[@boptillyouflop]

For daily use, they used a very cursive and more standardized form called Hieratic which is much more reasonable (and eventually an even more cursive form, Demotic, which reduced the number of glyphs a lot)...

[@lucianalu5937]

@@EnheTook50Benadryl ñ

[@ohwhale6844]

The pen writes so satisfyingly

[@graviti_NRA]

А я то думал что каждый такой манускрипт несёт в себе какой-то более обширный смысл нежели просто букву. Пойду ка я тоже придумаю свой египетский алфавит.... Египетская сила😁👍

[@drippychoco3057]

I adore the differences between u, v, and w. It would be very confusing to others who will think we just couldn’t draw the beaks the same.

[@nibbonbon]

*not me trying to figure out the difference, but realises that back then there wasn't much to differentiate between v, u and w, also l and r*

[@p.k1080]

I am unable to see any difference between them,can you please tell me the differences.

[@kekake]

There is no difference It maybe that pronouncing that bird: v, w or u is ok in the word Or, the language itself got a totally different system from regular alphabet we are used to but nowadays guys try to make it like what we use Not sure

[@K1z0ku]

@@kekake The thing is, Egyptians didn't mark vowels in their writing. Lots of writing systems originating in the Fertile Crescent omit them. Hebrew, Arabic and Tifinagh (berber writing system) still don't use it. What is represented here as vowels are either approximations or guesswork. The glyphs for "a" and "o" are actually glottal stops (the thing you do between vowels in "Uh-oh" in English for example), the quail that represents UVW - is just a "w" sound. the double diagonal line is "j" as in "Johann", as is a reed leaf used for "I" and "y". But since when discussing Ancient Egyptian and their names and stuff we can't really say "jmhtp 'mnhtp", "wsrkf", jpt-swt" we came up with arbitrary rules that state that we will use "A" after the glottal stop, "u" after the "w" sound, "ee" after the "j" and so these clusters of consonants became "Imhotep", "amenhotep", "userkaf", "Ipet-Sut" etc. It's almost certainly not the way ancient egyptians pronounced it. "Tutankhamun" may have been pronounced "Twet-onkh-yemeni" or "Tweet-on-khu-yo-man", but we have to use something. Call it an educated guess. All we know that it's something with "Twt'nkh'mn" and some vowels sprinkled in-between. There are SOME glimpses of what vowels were used in certain words, when certain names are being transcribed from one language to another (e.g. ancient greek or babylonian), and for example we can say that god Amun's name almost certainly starts with an "A", but it could be "Amun", "Amon" or "Amen". But that doesn't mean that the sound of glottal stop is always followed by "A" sound in every word.

[@kekake]

@@K1z0ku This makes sense

[@everydayistacotuesday9847]

u, v, w: “Corporate wants you to find the difference between these pictures.” “They’re the same picture.”

[@accuratejaney8140]

FF: U, V, and W /were/ basically the same letter back in the days, V was a consonant U in ancient greece, and W stands for V in german and probably other germanic languages

[@plasmoasis]

@@accuratejaney8140 i think the W = V thing applies to slavic languages too

[@katherinelovewell5397]

Teacher: Tell the difference between these two pictures (v & w) Me: They're the same picture

[@nunoluminari7390]

In Egyptian Hieroglyphics, there are no vowels, so, If you want to write U then u write W (Quail chick) because it is the nearest hieroglyph. Same thing happens to I and E that uses Y and YY

[@shitpost_status_zero6093]

@@plasmoasis Yea, mostly. The czech and the russian language for example don't use W at all.

[@user-fe6jo4te4n]

Me: Writing Egyptian Birds: 🌝

[@janetxmariah]

Love the pen. So smooth

[@evil-is-hot]

I love how some of the letters are beautiful depictions of birds and some of them are, like, a squiggle.

[@itsallaboutwriting88]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJTCl6aul8lke80

[@petey6467]

It should be cleared up that hieroglyphics aren’t actually strictly alphabets. This is so beautiful tho :p

[@heavenlydusk]

Yeah they're just letters

[@itsallaboutwriting88]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJTCl6aul8lke80

[@usharani519]

Ur hundredth like : ))

[@kennyaustin429]

Yes and no. The egyptian language was written with an alphabetic script but it didn't have a lot of vowels, so they'd often substitute consonants like w, h and j to represent letters like o, u, i, etc. For examples Osiris is spelled as wsjr.

[@adapienkowska2605]

@@kennyaustin429 they just didn't use vowels at all. They used pure abjad.

[@-youssefmokhtar-]

ほんとにすごい🤩

[@Asher-Tzvi]

Fun fact: The Ancient Egyptian written language (Heiroglyphs) had no Vowels. It was mostly consonants. So names and words such as as Tutankhamun were actually written as Ttnkhmn. Linguists just filled in random vowels as place holders, so we don't really know how words were actually pronounced

[@yowo6105]

linguistics student here: to say that linguists just filled in "random" vowels would do injustice to their research. based on dialects, reconstruction and vowel properties linguists can determine some of the vowels, or at least limit it to a front or a back vowel etc. what ancient and old Egyptian sounded like is still very uncertain but vowel properties sometimes influence the consonants and the other way around. when looked at cognates of the words in other languages, an educated estimation or the vowel can also be made

[@user-lj2wt8no7w]

When you see a snake in egypt: - OMG! IT'S A JJJJJJJ

[@salmazeinel-deen4653]

No, actually that never happens👁️👄👁️ "I'm egyptian by the way 🇪🇬"

[@somuchtosee9625]

In Egypt we don't use ancient Egyptian language or even study it We're just speaking Arabic

[@tyouking3449]

@@somuchtosee9625 speak the language of your ancestors.. smh kids these days

[@lifeisboring4867]

Not funny, This is language of the Pharaohs

[@salmazeinel-deen4653]

@@tyouking3449 Sorry, but are you crazy or something? *ARABIC IS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF EGYPT* and most egyptians don't even know anything about hieroglyphics. Don't be stupid , *please!!*

[@dragonsuper6195]

Imagine if ancient Egyptian hieroglyph letters were the scribbles of a bored time traveller.

[@sakicocoa1092]

Thats cool lol

[@nekomimi793]

Make sense enough

[@ultranova1532]

Looks like he liked birds

[@archkull]

@@nekomimi793 no

[@nightdream586]

me: doodling random birds during class egyptians: wondering why i want to commit a nuclear war

[@TonyToad22]

Me: **bird watching** Some many different birds just hanging out together up there in the trees. Oh look! A snake! Ancient Egyptian: they're trying to tell me something...

[@robincabrera2432]

Can we just admire for a second the perfection of that triangle pls? 1:21

[@danielacabrerarivero9143]

Of course we can. That triangle was perfection.

[@applepie1272]

If there's no glare, it would've been more perfect

[@Descension.]

damn, KZbin before KZbin

[@fallout_flame]

No one gonna mention the bird that represents "A" makes an A with its legs?

[@amazing7233]

No one

[@giselealves4645]

No one

[@boorave]

No one

[@monk1100]

You'll never know

[@ZacharyTylerJensen]

The bird makes an A with its legs. There, I mentioned it.

[@paolahelleby7633]

あなたは最高の日本のカリガフィア匠です

[@cozinhalifestyle]

Parabéns pelo belo trabalho 👏👏👏👏

[@pixel_cloud00]

A child drawing birds,snakes,cats, worms n some designs Egyptian:Ow my!What a creative story you've written

[@docv6950]

Heres something to help you remember the symbols in alphabets: A - is a bird B - is a leg C - is a headset D - is a piece of log or a stick E - is for a path F - is a slug G - is a furnace or a mouth or a plane wing H - is a start of a maze but ends in a dead end I - is a flag or a knife J - is a snake K - is a tea cup a pan or an upside down turtle looking outside its shell L - is an oblong M - is an owl N - is literally a squiggly line O - is rope tied to a balloon P - is a square Q - is a mountain R - a bigger oblong S - a rope T - is a small hill U - is a baby bird V - is also a baby bird but with a flat head W - is a smaller baby bird X - is a ball Y are two knifes or flags Z - is an eye There are a lot of birds in their alphabets its a little hard to differentiate lol

[@antoninaskedas5730]

D is a hand and I a feather

[@mollyencrypted2488]

Y is two reeds, according to Only Connect

[@jonimaar__2023]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@idk9747]

D is more like a... Nevermind you may be a child

[@docv6950]

@@idk9747 Na i know it looks like a pe-LOL

[@goldenrosie]

I’ve loved learning about Ancient Egypt ever since I was a little girl. The hieroglyphics are wonders to me.

[@dani3lson998]

Me to. I've connected so much from the ancient tablets and what they tried telling us thru symbolism -hence why the speak with such manner" and religious beliefs and tribal beliefs as well. Crazy world

[@glennowen4940]

Even differentiating L and R is hard since Ancient Egypt. U, V, W: *watching silently*

[@rico-228]

A

[@SamB_]

@@rico-228 rico 228

[@masterspark9880]

It’s the same letter

[@nicholasmunoz99]

They went all out on the letters A M U V W

[@cynthiaobligeasmr]

Well, when the language saw use, U V and W were all pronounced the same

[@momyma]

L and R use the same letter Similar to korean and japanese

[@Yuri-ji1re]

@@momyma Yes, but it's not because of that. The hieroglyph for L and R were the same too, the pronounciation of it varied between TT as in "letter", L as in "link", Y as in "yellow" or even mute (that is, in middle egyptian, in old egyptian it is kinda unclear, but possibly TT as in "letter" and dialectally L as in "link").

[@EstkaEkoFadhil]

🦅🦉🐧🐦🐤

[@yaiij]

damn the handwriting is so perfect i could never 💀💀

[@marianaisabel3076]

Me gustó mucho, gracias por compartir, saludos desde México.

[@cse03raghuveerawankar31]

Birds got more influence In Ancient Egyptian literature than any other languages in the world 😀

[@user-ko6ip7ci3e]

古代人「なんか俺が書いた落書きが文字として使われてるんだけど」

[@user-sx9mz4im4j]

こておめ。

[@hatena-coffee]

それはそれでほっこりするな。 あとこておめ。

[@Akai_Maple]

逆にこれ最初に文字だと思った奴凄くね？

[@user-ko6ip7ci3e]

マジかよ！

[@uwaatteiuhennnahito.]

こておめ

[@nobodyuknow4911]

Ancient Egyptian 1: "Hey, how many birds should we use for our letters and words?" Ancient Egyptian 2: "All of them..."

[@ImaErick]

ancient middle school egyptian kids writing the letter c everywhere

[@rian353]

Imagine reading ps2 gta san andreas cheat codes as an ancient egyptian while having a hard time figuring out whether the code says L1 or R1

[@elle7322]

underrated comment, lmao

[@mud213]

Much like in Korean, the dialect of Egyptian that the written down was based on developed the r-l merger. They are the same symbol. 🎵 X-Files 🎵

[@saifahmed7398]

lmao I thaught that comment would be at least ten years ago XD

[@danielled8665]

@@mud213 so kinda like “C” in English can be Cereal or Caught, completely different sounds for the same letter?

[@mud213]

@@danielled8665 The storied past of the letter c is an interesting one, but actually pretty different. From Greek into Latin it was used to represent /k/. Once Latin evolved into Vulgar Latin, in some dialects (namely French) it was pronounced more like /ts/ like in the word "lance." Over time this drifted further to just be provided as /s/ in certain context. ;) The r-l merger has to do with both being pronounced the same. You can see this in various Eastern Asian dialects. Like most rhotic sounds, the sound of English is rather difficult for a non-native speaker as it requires your tongue to be in a rather specific place to sound right. Many languages (including this version of Ancient Egyptian) do not have both sounds in their inventory. I'm fact, doing an Egyptian "Alphabet" in general is a bit misleading since there are sounds in the language not expressed in the 26 letter Latin alphabet. There are 4 adjacent sounds, and a single character for and . With only 3 vowels of two lengths, the 5 vowel system doesn't quite map on either.

[@thisisxinnamon]

Everyone: Imagine writing an essay with these and getting a slug. Me: Why do only A, M, U, V and W get to be birbs?

[@imhomewiththemilk]

Bcs a m u v and w r the cool letters

[@chewed_gum87]

what the hell do you mean by "birb"? it's not "birb" it's a "bird"

[@thisisxinnamon]

@@chewed_gum87 Our BIRB overlords would disapprove of that statement.

[@brain0068]

@@imhomewiththemilk where's the x appreciation 😀

[@imhomewiththemilk]

@@brain0068 the x is a scam, its just z

[@kynansmusic9724]

I'm glad I didn't go to university during ancient Egypt. It would take me 3 years to finish a single essay!

[@xiuxiuejar91307]

This is one of the most interesting languages ive ever seen

[@Secret7._.26]

私が言っているのは、彼はそれをとても完璧に書いたということです

[@lominori4196]

助けるために翻訳者 =∆

[@duarteguilherme8996]

Loving the fact they went like “full commitment” on inventing the first letter and then didn’t care anymore lol

[@ceciliarauth6113]

🤣🤣🤣

[@GitarisRetjeh]

😅

[@rosedewittbukater4203]

Beautiful!! I am glad that I have found your channel!

[@lisamayes8409]

"How many birds do you want?" Hieroglyphics: yes

[@Anderixx]

00:38 each boy wrote this at least one time in his life 😂

[@arionthedeer7372]

Huh

[@KrogTharr]

You see, we were misunderstood! We were just practicing egyptology 😌

[@toeisonic-x4558]

I don't get it

[@BeLIEveInTy]

@@arionthedeer7372 Its a sperm with two heads..

[@valorantandosuplays1625]

@@BeLIEveInTy lol

[@awendela1587]

People : "please write a paragraph" Ancient Egyptians : "you mean *draw* a paragraph"

[@Mohamedadel01152]

تمام ، في البدايه احب اشكره علي هذا المجهود الرائع الطيب ، ثانيا الناس بتتسأل ايه قصه اللغه دي ، اللغه دي بتاعت الفراعنه يعني المصريين القدماء لاكن حاليا بنستخدم اللغه العربيه عادي (اللغه العربيه العاميه المصريه) ولكنها حضاره في الاول والاخر معكم محمد عادل من مصر ، تحياتي لليابان وكل بلدان العالم

[@AverageLothricFanboy]

Im Greek-Egyptian But I Grew Up In Neither Of These Countries And Im Learning How To Read Speak And Write In Them

[@cain_chamomille]

He's damn talented that he ascended to *Egyptian* . Mmy e s s.

[@pianobeats1770]

The beauty of your profile photo🤯