Is the Egyptian hieroglyph a language?

Answer 1

Hieroglyphs consist of three kinds of glyphs: phonetic glyphs, including single-consonant characters that functioned like an alphabet; logographs, representing morphemes; and determinatives, or ideograms, which narrowed down the meaning of a logographic or phonetic words.
So, no...they weren't a language of their own, just a way to write the language Egyptians spoke. Sort of like writing now...cursive is how we write our language...it isn't our language.

Answer 2

It was not a spoken language. Not like English or German, where the letter/symbols phoenetically sound out words. Hieroglyphs are pictoral characters that represent words. You cannot "speak" hieroglyphs, you can only interpret them. The Ancient Egyptian spoken language was separate from hieroglyphs. Of course, the hieroglyphs were interpreted into Egyptian, but they are also pretty much universal and can be easily "spoken" or translated into any language.

Answer 3

Egyptian hieroglyphs (Sometimes called Hieroglyphics) was a writing system used by the Ancient Egyptians, that contained a combination of logographic, alphabetic, and ideographic elements. Cartouches were also used by the Egyptians. The variety of brush-painted hieroglyphs used on papyrus and (sometimes) on wood for religious literature is known as cursive hieroglyphs; this should not be confused with hieratic. 3100 B.C - 400 A.D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphics

I suppose you could say that the glyphs are a caricaturization of the Egyptian language.

Answer 4

The Egyptian hieroglyphic language is... a language. Hence the Rosetta Stone with the hieroglyphs on it.

Answer 5

contained in the XVIII century, whilst Napoleon' s troops have been in Egypt, they got here across a tremendous rock ( referred to as the Rossetta stone ) with a textual content fabric in numerous languages: Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphs between them. by using evaluating the Greek words to the Egyptian hieroglyphs it became achievable to start the translation. This became merely the 1st step, nonetheless, by means of fact the similarity became got here upon first contained in the call of the pharaoh Ptolomeus, that became interior of a rectangle, however the Egyptians wrote the names in a very precise way. the different words in distinctive approaches.as a result, whilst the desciphered hieroglyphs have been used to objective descipher different words it became ineffective

Answer 6

well it's a system of writing for a language

Answer 7

yes it is a written language

Answer 8

yes.