Task 1.1 - Egyptian Hieroglyphs (16/16)

Prehistoric writing: Egyptian Hieroglyphs 

The Egyptian Hieroglyphs (3100 BC to 400 AD) are considered as the earliest writing. This writing is complex but also straightforward and it is thought that Egyptian Hieroglyphs are historical and religious. It is divided into three categories: logograms(a symbol representing a word), phonograms(a symbol which represents a sound) and determinatives(characters which clarify a statement).

The following is an example of logograms:

One can notice that Egyptians wrote only in consonants, therefore they didn't use any vowels. They used one, two or three consonants as shown in the image below.

Uniconsonantal, biconsonantal, triconsonantal

Personal thought : 

When researching Egyptian scripts, I noticed the similarity between hieroglyphs and emoticons. They both represent words and also express emotions. Emoticons nowadays are used all over the web especially in specific applications such as Whatsapp and Facebook chat.

Ancient Scripts, 2014. Egyptian. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.ancientscripts.com/egyptian.html. [Accessed 03 March 2014].