How can historians know how anciant writings where pronounced? like hieroglyphic or summerian?

Question

Cause knowing what they mean is one thing , and how they sound is another.

Answer 1

Hieroglyphic prounounciation was dicovered when the French historian Champlion found the Rosetta stone in Rosetta, Egypt. The stone is now found in the National British museum in London. The stone had a script in three languages: Latin, Hieroglyphic, and Coptic. At that time, the hieroglyphic lanuguage was totally dead and noone knew hoe to read or pronounce words in it. Ancient Egyptians had the habit of writing names inside of Khartoushes, which are oval shapes. So, as names are the same in all languages, they compared how names are pronounced to the letters and they figured out how each letter is pronounced.

Answer 2

Ancient languages still survive: Latin, Sansikrit, Hebrew. They are derivatives of older languages. many of them have similare pronouncement. Scientist also when translate languages in English they pronounce them as English letters. Heiroglyphics have pictures in them. Summerians usually did too. THey are both similar to Phoenician. Phoenician had 22 alphabet letters in it many of them are used in English and pronounced the same way thus words in those writings are also similare. That is also another way historians know how to pronounce ancient writings.

Answer 3

heiroglyphics because a french discovered the rosetta stone with 3 languages (including heiroglyphics). it took a person over 3 years to figure it out