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.
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
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
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.
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. 🤓
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!
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
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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. 🤔🤔🤔
“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
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
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.
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.
@@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'
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
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)...
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.
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…
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.
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.
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
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)
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
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
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.
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
@@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.
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.
@@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!!*
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.
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
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
@@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").
@@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.
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😁👍
Fun fact: Egyptian letters were actually an abjad, meaning there were no written vowels. Also, Egyptian did not just copy English sounds, that had to evolve over thousands of years.
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
The stress of writing what the teacher is dictating. Only 50 B.C. Egyptian kids can relate.
😂😂😂 but that's looks fun and artistic
This is the first thing that crossed my mind I swear lol
50 BC egyptian gang!!
@@ambrosiusdaniskaunang yeah! Especially the letters that are written as birds! 😍
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.
Ancient egyptian teacher: Write a 1000 words essay
Me writing it:
at that point you're taking an art class, not a history class
Well, God bless you all folks.
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.
Ancient egyptian teacher: Write a 1000 words essay.
Me: ok.
Ancient egyptian teacher: You got one hour.
Me:💀
Well a picture is worth a 1000 words so technicaly it's pretty easy...
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。
Que?
"sua escrita é muito boa e eu estou surpreso em saber que você escreve em tantas línguas"
@@HannaBraken no entiendo
@@MiliaOculorus *Hay algo que dice* _traducir al español_
@@RockoSalmon a si xd
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
Ra: how many birds do u want in ur language?
Ancient Egyptians: Y E S
actually 5
BIRD TIME
🗣🗣🗣
@@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.
@@evanseifert8858 but 5
I love how the letters range from simple geometric shapes to B I R D.
dont forget about lil snek
It was a snail
@@Name-eg1uf where's his lil home at ? :(
@@joshuhigashikata9201 somehow I forgot that its called a slug
The character for j could be a lil snek
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
I- a feather not knife
@@ahmedfadlemam7485 J is a snake
pringle 😂
Shoutout to this guy. He went back thousands of years to learn these in order to show us how to. This takes real dedication
𓅓𓇋𓇌𓃀𓇋 𓈖𓋴𓏏
@@zizo3132⚓⚰️🦿🦾🦷🫁👅🪳🦓🦓🦞🦞🕸️🦧🦧🦧🗿🗿🗿
Imagine writing an essay like this and your teacher just marks it 𓆑
𓅓𓆙𓂻𓅰
How-
w o r m
:?
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
can we all just take a minute to appreciate the greatness of this mans handwriting
Maybe drawing instead
A drawing
If it's text then it's writing not drawing
Finally, thank you
maybe only seconds..
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.
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. 🤓
as an Egyptian i'd say my ancestors were really cool
As not an Egyptian, I would like to say that your ancestors were cool
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!
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
This is true and there are more forms of hieroglyphs that were native to africa not just Egypt.
@@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.
Ancient Chinese kinda looked similar actually. Pictographs that looked like pictures rather than letters
I'm surprised that you even need to clarify that...
L and R are just chilling like bros. And meanwhile U, V, and W are all just the pointing spidermans meme.
What's the different between L and R?
A is also a pointing spiderman.
@@Zuru422 nah A is sitting on the throne while u,v,w worship it
Well, okay, I knew story behind u,v,w why they are same, but L and R are confusing me
@@StickStep L and R are both little eye-shaped letters but without the pupils and iris. I'll put a timestamp.
damn the handwriting is so perfect i could never 💀💀
The birds are the cutest characters in the history of characters in any language
me, a russian speaker, at 2am: **watching japanese guy write ancient egyptian hieroglyphs while having video title in english**
Ахахх
Same from Spain 😂❤️
Same frm Mxcity 🤓
To me the title are in portuguese, my mother language.
From France ;)
Americans: Hey, how's going?
The ancient Egyptians: 🐦🏀🦉🦶🐤🐍🟥
Ha, ha, ha ...!!!! Make my day...!!!
Wait this is actually so cute
Me trying to figure out what it actually means
Yeah it's our great language 🌸🇪🇬👑
_XMB_JP?
｢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
It's not just handwriting, it's an art
Kid drawing bird snakes and some random designs.
The Ancient Egyptian: You are a nice poet
Daaaam 😂😂
😂😂
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.
@@4zl joke is about that
@@4zl r/woooooooosh
Imagine writing egyptian hieroglyphics in cursive
Seriously underrated comment !
There's a resaon why alot of people couldn't write or read
May I introduce you to Hieratic
@@K1z0ku WHAT THE HELL THIS IS ACTUALLY REAL thats awesome
@@K1z0ku i just searched it and man that’s epic
respect to this man, he teleported to ancient egypt and learned some hieroglyphs.
こうしてみると、日常使いできる文字の気がしてきます。
Wow i didn't realize that lots of classmates wrote the letter "c" on my books. I thought it was something else
I was hoping for a comment like this
Same here, what a relief
Not the “c” 😭
@Горан Цеста C=s k
𓂸
Everybody’s gangster until the bird gang shows up at the end
bird gang bird gang
Imagine getting eaten by birds
-this comment was made by spoilled bread gang.
@@Cosmic_Bald-e don't feed birds bread it's very bad for them :(
@@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.
@@a-bird-lover Lil Pump - Bird Gang!
I will like to call it, 'Avian Alphabets' .
Hand writing is admirable 👍
Just enjoyed the voyage to Ancient Greek Era.😊
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
I like how they didn't use a simple one for 'A' so people can decide to stop learning early.
😂😂✋
Looked pretty simple to me
Lololol
@Prestallar back then they didn't have vowels, but the bird sign was the first letter of their 'alphabet', it was just a consonant sound.
@@mctartaglia615 imagine drawing that while writing your homework though
Kindergartens and kindergarten teachers watching this be like:
Teacher: who could spell "BEE"
Students: a leg and 4 slashes
🦵\\\\
@@PhanJustin oh mah ghaaaaad
^^^^^^➰
@@MigWith 🚩🚩\\👁
Yes, now spell "MAMMOTH"
Love ancient Egyptian stuff. These guys were waaayyyy ahead of their time. Simply incredible artists. ❤
You say that, but then they have 2 identical ovals and 3 identical birds meaning different letters.
この言語で書くのは素晴らしいです
Teacher: Class, what is the first letter of the alphabet?
Class: “A”
Me, an intellectual: Actually, it’s *bird*
Lol
Actually, it's A bird
🤣👌
@@cybear3387 So you are the “that guy”
It's a plane
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.
🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Bruh... Hahahhahaha
You made it look easy to write. I cannot imagine a timed exam during ancient egypt.
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.
@@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. 🤔🤔🤔
Love the pen. So smooth
How many birds do you want in your alphabet?
Egyptians: "Yes"
Any Snakes, worms, owls, legs or creepy eyes?
Ancient Egyptians: Yes
“How many birds do you want in your alphabet?”
Egyptians: 5.
😂
Just don't like, trust me
"5"
Imagine writing your whole history test in heiroglyphs and the teacher be like:
👁️👄👁️⁉️ F
I want to do that
Well you’d just be making yourself lose so lol
F? you mean 🐌 right
“Imagine yourself as an ancient Egyptian and write a diary entry”
@@stxwbby actually it's supposed to be a horned snake... Go figure..:)
鳥5羽が優遇されててかっこいいwうち3羽は同じw
Dude, this guy saved my history grade. I need to do a mind map on this and he just saved me.
This pen will automatically make my handwriting gorgeous and unlock all my potential for creativity, I just know it
The key is less about the pen and more about how he takes his time
I must buy it.
the sarasa pen is incredible i can vouch
“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
You know, they will just never bother correcting that.
Just write the essay and encrypt it somewhere
It's not an alphabet tho
You F 😂😂😂😆😆
Do you even understand the difference between alphabets & hierogylphs?
The pen writes so satisfyingly
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
Okay but isn’t it cool how the ‘A’ glyph literally forms an A?
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.
if I remember correctly, our letter A actually comes from an egyptian hieroglyph of an ox. It's a cow :D
N is realy interesting too
@@a-bird-lover I thought it was a bird
@@fathfez7991 nope. ua-cam.com/video/7o1WCP4tYJ4/v-deo.html
Towards the end of the script the egyptians were just like: “MORE BIRDS”
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
uvw are all 'u' it made me eye-bird-eye
@@Swan234 so how did they text uwu?
@@TrueFork they didn't. If they tried they would be sacrificed to uwusiris
I read this as “MORBIUS”
ほんとにすごい🤩
書き方ではなく、描き方です。
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.
And then the SV left again, and start to make another simpler one
I love how some of the letters are beautiful depictions of birds and some of them are, like, a squiggle.
ua-cam.com/video/6c_fsxbd1Ek/v-deo.html
I am Egyptian and i study all of this you do it so great I really love it you so amazing
It really went from: 🐦, to 💁♂️, then🪱, to〰️ and ◻️, then back to🐦 again
Really? Before you finish writing your name, the exam is over 😂😂😂
I think so 🤣😅
XD
Nah ancient egyptian exams lasted for days 😂
@@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'
I'm ancient egyptian and I can say his handwriting is way better than mine
Really are you egyptian?
@@Gyan_sarwopare I don't know if it matters but no
@@Gyan_sarwopareI am an Egyptian Coptic who remained clinging to his identity in the face of the Arab encroachment And their invasions
Aɴᴅ I ʟɪᴠᴇ ɪɴsɪᴅᴇ ᴀ ᴘʏʀᴀᴍɪᴅ 😆
a pyramid just flew pver my house
Parabéns pelo belo trabalho 👏👏👏👏
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
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.
@luis carlos flores Salazar ñ
@luis carlos flores Salazar аап
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)...
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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.
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…
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.
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.
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
Yeah I remembered there being a lion for L but when they didn’t write it I was confused
every other letter: cool squiggles and animals
P: *rectangle*
2:52 better?
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！
一年前にボケたのに良いね全然ついてなくて可哀想😂
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ところがどっこい、ガチなんだなぁこれが。
古代エジプト文明調べてみると面白いぞ若人。
もう１年か…。
１年前のコメント見つけてくれてありがとな。
the difference between V and W haunts me every night
U,V, and W
How about L and R? Lol
@@ayuyohanes7149 L is the smaller one R is the bigger one its like comparing twins that have difference in size
And the difference in U,V,W is the beak and the fat
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)
u, v, w:
“Corporate wants you to find the difference between these pictures.”
“They’re the same picture.”
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
@@accuratejaney8140 i think the W = V thing applies to slavic languages too
Teacher: Tell the difference between these two pictures (v & w)
Me: They're the same picture
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
@@plasmoasis Yea, mostly. The czech and the russian language for example don't use W at all.
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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.
A child drawing birds,snakes,cats,
worms n some designs
Egyptian:Ow my!What a creative story you've written
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.
*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*
I am unable to see any difference between them,can you please tell me the differences.
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
@@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.
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This makes sense
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.
Beautiful!! I am glad that I have found your channel!
Can we just admire for a second the perfection of that triangle pls? 1:21
Of course we can. That triangle was perfection.
If there's no glare, it would've been more perfect
damn, UA-cam before UA-cam
When you see a snake in egypt:
- OMG! IT'S A JJJJJJJ
No, actually that never happens👁️👄👁️
"I'm egyptian by the way 🇪🇬"
In Egypt we don't use ancient Egyptian language or even study it
We're just speaking Arabic
@@somuchtosee9625 speak the language of your ancestors.. smh kids these days
Not funny, This is language of the Pharaohs
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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!!*
Everyone: *talking about how many birds are there in the egyptian hieroglyphics*
Me: why does the C look like-
Muito interessante. Obrigado!
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Birds got more influence In Ancient Egyptian literature than any other languages in the world 😀
Imagine if ancient Egyptian hieroglyph letters were the scribbles of a bored time traveller.
Thats cool lol
Make sense enough
Looks like he liked birds
@@nekomimi793 no
Me gustó mucho, gracias por compartir, saludos desde México.
As an Egyptian I really liked your handwriting❤
まるで、いつも書いてる文字みたいにサラサラ書いてて、しかも無茶苦茶きれい！
すご〜いっ！！
He's damn talented that he ascended to *Egyptian* . Mmy e s s.
The beauty of your profile photo🤯
Writing in Egyptian is like making a drawing.
わかりました、あなたは本物のために作ったクールです、そして私はそれが好きです
It should be cleared up that hieroglyphics aren’t actually strictly alphabets. This is so beautiful tho :p
Yeah they're just letters
ua-cam.com/video/6c_fsxbd1Ek/v-deo.html
Ur hundredth like : ))
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.
@@kennyaustin429 they just didn't use vowels at all. They used pure abjad.
No one gonna mention the bird that represents "A" makes an A with its legs?
No one
No one
No one
You'll never know
The bird makes an A with its legs. There, I mentioned it.
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
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
ところでVとWの違いがわからなかったんですけど・・・
Even differentiating L and R is hard since Ancient Egypt.
U, V, W: *watching silently*
A
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It’s the same letter
They went all out on the letters A M U V W
Well, when the language saw use, U V and W were all pronounced the same
L and R use the same letter
Similar to korean and japanese
@@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").
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I return to this whenever I feel my anxiety rising, there's something soothing about this :-)
Im Greek-Egyptian But I Grew Up In Neither Of These Countries And Im Learning How To Read Speak And Write In Them
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
underrated comment, lmao
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 🎵
lmao I thaught that comment would be at least ten years ago XD
@@mud213 so kinda like “C” in English can be Cereal or Caught, completely different sounds for the same letter?
@@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.
I can only imagine seeing this to be marked on my Test paper after exam
Wow that's Awesome, I love it
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😁👍
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」
こておめ。
それはそれでほっこりするな。
あとこておめ。
逆にこれ最初に文字だと思った奴凄くね？
マジかよ！
こておめ
Loving the fact they went like “full commitment” on inventing the first letter and then didn’t care anymore lol
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Fun fact: Egyptian letters were actually an abjad, meaning there were no written vowels. Also, Egyptian did not just copy English sounds, that had to evolve over thousands of years.
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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?
Bcs a m u v and w r the cool letters
what the hell do you mean by "birb"? it's not "birb" it's a "bird"
@@teeheee888 Our BIRB overlords would disapprove of that statement.
@@imhomewiththemilk where's the x appreciation 😀
@@brain0068 the x is a scam, its just z
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
D is a hand and I a feather
Y is two reeds, according to Only Connect
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D is more like a...
Nevermind you may be a child
@@idk9747 Na i know it looks like a pe-LOL
You triggered my curiosity, thanks!
ancient middle school egyptian kids writing the letter c everywhere