Do we know how to pronounce the hieroglyphics symbols?
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It seems that when Jean François Champollion deciphered the ancient Egyptian writing (using Rosetta Stone and others), he discovered that it was still quite similar with Coptic despite the time difference. Coptic hasn't been a spoken language since the 1600's, but is the liturgical language of the coptic church and hence has been well preserved (as Latin has been).\n\nSo I think he used coptic to get the ponunciations.\n\nAbout "Ra": We don't really know what the vowel is. In fact, I don't think we know any vowels!\n\nHopefully and expert is online and can give a better answer!\nCheck out the source. I Didn't have time to read it properly.
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Just pronounce it the way it looks then ask the person if you got it right, they will soon tell you how to say it.
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Are you sure it isn't?\n\nNote that "ph" pronounced as /f/ is actually is a long-recognized representation  of the f-sound. Specifically, it is a "digraph" -- or set of two letters used to represent one sound.  Other standard digraphs in English are "ch", "sh" and "th".   \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H#Value\n\nOf course, in all those cases, the alphabet lacks a consonant to represent the sound (esp. since the loss of the letters called "thorn"  and "eth"-- used for the "th" sounds [with the voice -"the"; without the voice "math"]).  So why the "ph" when we have "f"?   \n\nEnglish borrowed it for Greek words borrowed THROUGH Latin.  It was in Latin that certain conventions for representing the Greek sounds was developed.  One of these was "ph" for the Greek letter "phi".  (Originally, in the Latin borrowing the sound of "ph" was different from Latin "f", which explains why this new convention developed.)    By keeping the "historical orthography [=spelling]" in these cases it is still possible to recognize words of Greek origin, and sometimes to tell something more about how the word is pronounced.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_of_Greek_origin#The_written_form_of_Greek_words_in_English\n\n\nBut WHY did Latin use "pH" for this sound?     They got it from the GREEKS !!\n\nSee the end of this article:\n\n"H"\n"The use (of H) in digraphs (e.g. -sh-, -th-) goes back to the ancient Gk. alphabet, which used it in -ph-, -th-, -kh- until -H- took on the value of a long "e" and the digraphs acquired their own characters. The letter passed into Roman use before this evolution, and thus retained there more of its original Sem. value."\nhttp://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=h\n\n------------------------\n\nAs for the use of C (instead of K) --  the 'hard' pronunciation of "c" for words of Latin origin is common and ancient
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the way you communicate to one another using algebraic symbols?
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They are listed at:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet#Main_table
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An anglicized pronunciation of the Hebrew tetragrammaton, YHWH, which are the four consonant letters used to spell God’s name in the Old Testament (Exodus 3:14). The Hebrews considered the name of God too holy to pronounce and susbstituted the word “Lord” (adonai) when the text was read. The vowels of the word “adonai” was combined with YHWH to get the word “Jehovah” which was first used in the 12th century. A more accurate pronunciation of YHWH would be “Yahweh.
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History of Hieroglyphs and Pictographs?\n\nPictographs are much older than Hieroglyphs, since the former were used in the stone age. However, ideograms are much older than pictographs, as Professor Herman Wirth Roeper Bosch found out and had documented in his many books, written in German. The ideograms go back at least 30,000 years as Professor Herman Wirth Roeper Bosch proved by his publications in the 1930s, yet, they may go back probably many hundred thousand years. (Die heilige Urschrift der Menschheit, The Holy Primal Scripture of Humankind; Allmutter, All Mother and other books by him.)\n\nIdeograms are signs which signify our sacred energies, as Dr. Bara Loveland discovered. E.g. a vertikal line stands for "man" that is, for the true spiritual man, since the line signifies his life energy Kundalini-Shakti, for which the West forgot the name. (Dr. Bara H. Loveland, Der Sonenweg, The Way of the Sun).\n\nPictograms followed soon the ideograms. Pictograms were used as symbols for our sacred energy fields. E.g. the life energy Kundalini Shakti was represented by a snake, then mistaken to mean "snake."\n\nHieroglyphs were developed in ancient Egypt around 3,500 BC. They contain ideograms and pictographs. The initiated can still discover the ideographs of our sacred energy fields in the hieroglyphs, a field Dr. Bara H. Loveland has researched for decades.\n\nWhat can we learn form the ideograms, pictographs and hieropglyhs?\n\nThat the ancient people were highly spiritual, the sacred energy was all they really cared about, wheras we are the ones who forgot our sacred, God-given energy! The symbols in ideograms, pictographs and hieroglyphs still tell the story! However, any symbolization of our holy energy signifies that it is at the brink of being forgotten. What we live, we do not ahve to symbolize!\n\nThanks for this interesting question!\nCordially, India.Magica
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_%28number%29#History\n\nThe late Olmec people of south-central Mexico began to use a zero digit (a shell glyph) in the New World possibly by the 4th century BC\n\nIn ancient India, the linguist Panini (5th century BC) used the null (zero or shoonya) operator
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This site has good explanations and images of the different symbols\nhttp://www.earthodyssey.com/symbols.html
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interpreter.  and the sign the correct letters.  how else?
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Yes it had. The rosetta stone had 3 languages written on it. The old the heiroglyphs had corresponding texts and trully let it be deciphered.\n\nIt is true the phonetics is a question but the same thing for hebrew. Who is to say mayim is not miyam. We assume its mayim because of the remaining few speakers who kept it alive. But sephardic hebrew was quite different from ashkenazic hebrew.\n\nThe sentence "The dog ran up the hill". In hebrew or egyptian would be "th dg rn xp th hll". We know what those words are but. It could be pronounced by people who never heard it "tho dag run op tho hall".\n\nWe may not know how to correctly speak ancient egyptian but the translation are known.
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Jsesh is pretty good. You can type and save hieroglyphs and export them as images. http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/JSesh/
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For most of Egyptian history the language written in actual hieroglyphics or in its cursive counterpart, hieratic, was the literary language initiated in the XII Dynasty (1991-1786) of the Middle Kingdom. \nThat is called "Middle Egyptian." In hieroglyphics or hieratic, therefore, one is only likely to encounter either Middle Egyptian or the earlier literary form of the language, Old Egyptian, the language spoken in the Archaic Period (I & II Dynasties, c. 3100-2680) and the Old Kingdom (III-VI Dynasties, 2680-2159). \nWhile Sir Alan Gardiner, in his great and indispensable Egyptian Grammar [Oxford University Press, 1927, 1964], says that Middle Egyptian was "possibly the vernacular of Dynasties IX-XI," Stephen Fryer has brought to my attention recent research to the effect that the literary language of the XII Dynasty was in some measure an artificial attempt to return to the forms of Old Egyptian. Since the political project of Egyptian Kings was always to restore things "as they were in the beginning," this is not surprising. Middle Egyptian, therefore, may have something like the status of Classical Sanskrit, which restored and fixed the forms of the language of the Vedas but could not undo all the changes that had already occurred in the spoken language.\n\nAlthough Middle Egyptian became the literary and written language, the spoken language continued to change. The language of the New Kingdom (XVIII-XX Dynasties, 1575-1087) and much of the Third Intermediate Period (XXI-XXIV Dynasties, 1087-715) is then called "New" or "Late Egyptian." By the Ramessid Period (Dynasties XIX & XX), most hieratic documents are in Late Egyptian. \nThe best evidence of the pronunciation of Late Egyptian, however, is from the documents found in the diplomatic archives of Amenhotep III and Akhenaton at Amarna, for these documents were kept in Akkadian, not in Egyptian. Akkadian was the diplomatic language of the day, essentially the same language as its two daughter languages, Babylonian and Assyrian; and its system of writing, cuneiform, represented vowels. Late Egyptian grammar also begins to be revealed by hieroglyphic inscriptions during the reign of Akhenaton, when the spoken language briefly replaced Middle Egyptian. Thus, while Old and Middle Egyptian did not have a definite article ("the"), Late Egyptian does, p3, later pronounced "pi" or "pe" in Coptic -- though now it appears that this change had already begun in the actual spoken language of the XII Dynasty.\n\nFollowing Late Egyptian are two stages of the spoken language, Demotic (c. 715 BC-470 AD) and Coptic (c. 400 AD-c. 1600)\n\nCoptic was the last evolution of the Egyptian language before it dies and replaced by Arabic
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Name Code            Glyph Description \n& dagger;                      †   dagger \n& Dagger;                     ‡   double dagger \n& spades;                     ♠   black spade suit \n& clubs;                        ♣   black club suit \n& hearts;                      ♥   black heart suit \n& oline;                         ‾   overline (overscore) \n& larr;                           ←   leftward arrow \n& uarr;                          ↑   upward arrow \n& rarr;                          →   rightward arrow \n& darr;                           ↓   downward arrow \n& trade;                        ™   trademark sign \n\n\n\n& mdash;                      —   em dash \n& iexcl;                          ¡   inverted exclamation \n& cent;                          ¢   cent sign \n& pound;                       £   pound sterling \n& curren;                      ¤   general currency sign \n& yen;                           ¥   yen sign \n& brvbar; or &brkbar     ¦   broken vertical bar \n& sect;                          §   section sign \n& uml;                           ¨   umlaut \n& copy;                         ©   copyright \n& ordf;                           ª   feminine ordinal \n& laquo;                        «   left angle quote \n& not; ;                         ¬   not sign \n& reg;                           ®   registered trademark \n& macr; or & hibar;        ¯   macron accent \n\n*i put spaces between the "&" and the second part of the code to show what the code looked like make sure you take out the spaces for it to work!
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You don't.  Chinese isn't phonetic, each symbol IS the word.  While you COULD get something that sounded vaguely like it, it might well mean something you hate.  For example, my name was Kathryn.  I was given the name Kai Ling.  And I can't remember what it means, even.
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http://www.seaworld.org/fun-zone/fun-guides/egypt/hieroglyphics.htm\nhttp://www.kingtut-treasures.com/hiero.htm
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click on the link, scroll down the page and it will show you the alphabet in egyptian hieroglyphics.  Then you can spell the word "love" \n\nhttp://www.egyptgiftshop.com/hieroglyphic_tshirt.html