Ancient Egyptian scripts

Hieratic script

Hieratic script

The Hieratic script was invented and developed more or less at the same time as the hieroglyphic script and was used in parallel with it for everyday purposes such as keeping records and accounts and writing letters. It was used until the 26th Dynasty, though by that time, it was only used for religious texts, while the Demotic script was used for most other purposes.

Notable features

Hieratic glyphs and the hieroglyphs they evolved from

Hieratic glyphs representing single consonants and the hieroglyphs from which they evolved

Hieratic determinatives and the hieroglyphs they evolved from

Hieratic determinatives and the hieroglyphs from which they evolved

Sample of Egyptian written in the Hieratic script

Sample of Egyptian written in the Hieratic script

Links

Information about the Hieratic script
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieratic
http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/writing/hieratic.html
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt//writing/hieratic.html
http://www.egyptologyforum.org/bbs/Stableford/Roberson,%20A_Very_Brief_Introduction_to_Hieratic.pdf
http://www.egyptologyforum.org/bbs/Stableford/HieraticPalaeo_I.pdf

Information about Ancient Egyptian

Ancient Egyptian language and Hieroglyphs | Hieratic script | Demotic script | Coptic alphabet | Links | Books about Ancient Egyptian

Egyptian languages

Ancient Egyptian, Coptic

Semanto-phonetic writing systems

Akkadian Cuneiform, Ancient Egyptian (Demotic), Ancient Egyptian (Hieratic), Ancient Egyptian (Hieroglyphs), Chinese, Chữ-nôm, Cuneiform, Japanese, Jurchen, Khitan, Linear B, Luwian, Mayan, Naxi, Sawndip (Old Zhuang), Sui, Sumerian Cuneiform, Tangut (Hsihsia)

Other writing systems

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