ඊජිප්තු රූපාක්ෂර
 | මෙම ලිපිය පරිවර්තනය කළ යුතුය කරුණාකර මෙම ලිපිය සිංහල භාෂාවට පරිවර්තනය කිරීමෙන් දායකවන්න. |
| Egyptian hieroglyphs | |
|---|---|
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| වර්ගය | |
| භාෂා | Egyptian language |
| කාල වකවානුව | ආ. 3250 BC – ආ. 400 AD |
මාතෘ ක්රම | (Proto-writing)
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දූහිතෲ ක්රම | |
| දිශානතිය | Left-to-right |
| ISO 15924 | Egyp, 050 |
යුනිකේත අන්වර්ථ | Egyptian Hieroglyphs |
Egyptian hieroglyphs (/ˈhaɪroʊˌɡlɪfs/ HY-roh-glifs)[1][2] were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined ideographic, logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 1,000 distinct characters.[3][4] Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood. The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts were derived from hieroglyphic writing, as was the Proto-Sinaitic script that later evolved into the Phoenician alphabet.[5] Egyptian hieroglyphs are the ultimate ancestor of the Phoenician alphabet, the first widely adopted phonetic writing system. Moreover, owing in large part to the Greek and Aramaic scripts that descended from Phoenician, the majority of the world's living writing systems are descendants of Egyptian hieroglyphs—most prominently the Latin and Cyrillic scripts through Greek, and the Arabic and Brahmic scripts through Aramaic.[ලිපි දේහය තුල සත්යෙක්ෂණය කොට නොමැත]
 | මෙම ලිපිය තවමත් අංකුර ලිපියකි. විකිපීඩියාවට උදවුවක් ලෙසින් ඔබ හට එය විහිදුවාලිය හැක. |
- ^ Jones, Daniel (2003), Roach, Peter; Hartmann, James; Setter, Jane, eds., English Pronouncing Dictionary, Cambridge University Press,
- ^ "hieroglyph". Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
- ^ In total, there were about 1,000 graphemes in use during the Old Kingdom period; this number decreased to 750–850 during the Middle Kingdom, but rose instead to around 5,000 signs during the Ptolemaic period. Antonio Loprieno, Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995), p. 12.
- ^ The standard inventory of characters used in Egyptology is Gardiner's sign list (1928–1953). A.H. Gardiner (1928), Catalogue of the Egyptian hieroglyphic printing type, from matrices owned and controlled by Dr. Alan Gardiner, "Additions to the new hieroglyphic fount (1928)", in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 15 (1929), p. 95; "Additions to the new hieroglyphic fount (1931)", in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 17 (1931), pp. 245–247; A.H. Gardiner, "Supplement to the catalogue of the Egyptian hieroglyphic printing type, showing acquisitions to December 1953" (1953). Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs as of version 5.2 (2009) assigned 1,070 Unicode characters.
- ^ Howard, Michael C. (2012). Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies. p. 23.