Middle Egyptian Sounds and Hieroglyphs Sounds and Symbols
Middle Egyptian Sounds and Hieroglyphs
Sounds and Symbols • Ancient Egyptians didn’t have an alphabet. • In other words, they didn’t use symbols to represent a particular sound. • Instead they used Hieroglyphs. • Hieroglyphs are pictures that can be used to represent a single word, several words, and a sound.
Quizlet: Egyptian Sounds Can you write your name with these sounds?
Review and pronounce these (Middle) Egyptian Words: • Read the following words in transliteration (transferred from Hieroglyphs to letters) allowed. • The approximation of the pronunciation written in brackets will help. a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k. nfr (néfer) = good, beautiful bnr (béner) = sweet pn (pen) = this st (set) = it Kmt (kémet) = Egypt gs (ges) = side mn (men) = to endure tp (tep) = head dpt (dépet) = boat hp (hep) = law zp (zep) = occasion
More Egyptian Words: • Read the following words in transliteration (transferred from Hieroglyphs to letters) allowed. • The approximation of the pronunciation written in brackets will help. • • • šs (shes) = linen ḏt (djet) = eternity qbb (kébeb) = cool ḫt (khet) = wood ṯz (tjez) = knot ẖt (khet) = belly ḥḥ (heh) = million zš (zesh) = scribe pḥ (peh) = to reach mnḫ (ménekh) = excellent mḏ (medj) = ten
Symbols: Sometimes pictures say more than words
What do these stand for?
(Middle) Egyptian Hieroglyphs: • Each Hieroglyph represents an Egyptian sound. • Try drawing the Hieroglyphs and then pronouncing the sounds. =r = �(aa) =m =ḏ =b =f
Match the Hieroglyphs with their correct transliteration and pronunciation. ḏ f f m r aa m r b dj � b
Transliterate these words: (Read the Hieroglyphs from left to right). ḏf mr r� �b ḏr
(Middle) Egyptian Hieroglyphs: • Each Hieroglyph represents an Egyptian sound. • Try drawing the Hieroglyphs and then pronouncing the sounds. =n =p =k =s =z =ḥ =t
Match the transliteration z n s ḥ p k t
Hieroglyp h Reading Order: • One of the strangest things about Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs is how to put the Hieroglyph sounds in the correct order. • They don’t always read from left to right – this is why it can be quite confusing for us who read letters from left to right. • How easily is it for you to understand the following sentence: Tneicna snaitpyge depihsrow ynam sdog
Review New Vocab: Quizlet: Egyptian Vocab & Hieroglyphs
All Egyptian Sounds and their Hieroglyphs: How do you spell your name?
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