More BC Egypt was quite developed cultural state with its script.First it was the individual images, drawings, and then - the characters and icons, the determinants of them.What Egyptians used icons determinant?Let's deal in order.
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At the beginning of the Egyptian letter is a set of images, each of which means that, in fact, she portrayed.
wanted to write an Egyptian "man" - drew a man, "bird" - painted bird, "river" - wavy lines depicting waves.
These pictures "painted" the wall in dwellings (inside and outside) and tombs, utensils and crockery.There is a sky, grass, snakes, birds, people - everything that happened in my life, the Egyptians sought to "burn."
But why the Egyptians used icons, qualifiers, you ask.It was too early to say, let's get acquainted with the characters.
Hieroglyphics
Writing developed very quickly.It soon became clear that all is not possible to draw.Some facts, events and actions that are present in human life can not be interpreted graphically, such as a person's name.To do this, make simplified drawings of characters that represented not only a particular word (the action), and consonants that are present in this word.
To make it easier to transfer the experience of the Egyptians in the Russian language.Assume oval "0" - a "ball".Now, mark "0" will mean not only the "ball", but sounds "cop" in any word.That is, this sign "0" we will be able to write the word "ball", "expanse", "greater", "Shira," "Shura" and so on. D.
vowels on Egyptians letter does not represent, and the signsconsonants called hieroglyphics.Such "letters" that indicate one or more sounds, there were more than 700 in the Egyptian "alphabet."
What Egyptians used icons determinant?The answers is near.
icons determinant
not difficult to guess that this way of writing that represent only consonants, and combinations or entire words (such hieroglyphs were also), very difficult to understand what is written in the letter.
Using our example, it would be easy to confuse the ball with Shura and expanse of the lake Shira.Here we finally becomes clear what the Egyptians used icons-qualifiers.These were the tips that were before or hieroglyph hieroglyphics and helped to understand more about the meaning of the written word.
Icons-qualifiers do not read, they carried only meaning.For example, if before the "0" we charted wavy line, then we would have lake Shire.
