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What happened to the Egyptian language?

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why dont we see heads like that today?

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psyka said:
What would you rather do?

Draw hundreds of pictures or draw a few lines to convey the same thought? Hieroglyphics is inefficient, which is why it died out.

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Ummm NO,

The word eternity is



the word meaning "To Write" is



Many of the words are simpler in (Kemetic) hieroglyphics. But the Hieroglyphics were only taught to the priests, The common man learned hieratic (A Sub-Dialect) which was essayer to write with simpler charters.

For example in this picture  the top line is kemetic and the bottom is hieratic. you will note that the hieratic is a more flowing script and essayer to write.




If your hypothesis was true then Chinese would have died out long ago.

You may want to note that I do read and write kemetic and hieratic fluently.

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Cosm said:
i totally disagree with your answers.

the Egyptians had papyrus to write on.

and boards are a relatively modern invention.

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psyka said:
If you were writing a 300 page thesis (font size 11) what language system would you choose to utilize?

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#1) Well a 300 page thesis would be 300 pages no matter what font I decided to use. 

#2) The truth is there are so few that can read and write the language it would be pointless to try and write it in kemetic.

#3) 11 point is some what small for kemetic. It makes it hard to read. But when it was being used there was no such thing as a computer, type set, or font point sizes.


#4) Kemetic words normally use fewer symbols to represent an idea, concept, or object than English. To top it off there are words in the kemetic language that have no English equivalent.

As with any language you use what you were raised with or you use what you have to to communicate. You do not give up a language because it is hard or complicated.

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trendal said:
Oh, and we don't see heads like those today because the traditions that created heads like that died off with the Egyptian civilization.

They used to TIGHTLY wrap the heads of some children, which would cause their skull to stretch out like you see in those pictures. Same idea as in asia where some girls feet are wrapped tightly from birth, which can cause the toes to grow back and under the feet.

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Cosm said:
cyber you said you could read hieroglyphics,could you translate this for us all.

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Cosm said:
There hieroglyphic message must have been really important for them to engrave it into stone so that it would endure all these years.

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and the way we learned to read there language was the rosetta stone right, so limited. this was probably written using hieratic hieroglyphics right.so do we really have the means to read what has been written?

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Cosm said:
Is there strong evidence that head wrapping was practiced in Egypt in those days?

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I doubt Froehlich's Syndrome or Marfan's Syndrome is the case.

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wow the Egyptians had some great skills in stone engraving and painting.what kind of tools could they have used to do that.

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Evidence would suggest to me that they were of a different species.

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Something doesn't quite make sense in Egypt.

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Indeed there is. It is still practiced in some areas of Africa and South America today.
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HERE BEGIN THE PRAISES AND GLORIFYINGS OF COMING OUT FROM AND OF GOING INTO THE GLORIOUS KHERT-NETER, WHICH IS IN THE BEAUTIFUL AMENTET, OF COMING FORTH BY DAY IN ALL THE FORMS OF EXISTENCE WHICH IT MAY PLEASE THE DECEASED TO TAKE, OF PLAYING AT DRAUGHTS, OF SITTING IN THE SEH HALL, AND OF APPEARING AS A LIVING SOUL: The Osiris the scribe Ani saith after he hath arrived in his haven of rest- now it is good for [a man] to recite [this work whilst he is] upon earth, for then all the words of Tem come to pass- "I am the god Tem in rising. I am the Only One. I came into existence in Nu. I am Ra who rose in the beginning, the ruler of this [creation]." Who is this? "It is Ra, when at the beginning he rose in the city of Hensu, crowned like a king for his coronation. The Pillars of the god Shu were not as yet created, when he was upon the steps of him that dwelleth in Khemenu. "I am the Great God who created himself, even Nu, who made his names to become the Company of the Gods as gods." Who is this? "It is Ra, the creator of the names of his limbs, which came into being in the form of the gods who are in the train of Ra. "I am he who cannot be repulsed among the gods." Who is this? "It is Temu, the dweller in his disk, but others say that it is Ra when he riseth in the eastern horizon of the sky. "I am Yesterday, I know To-day." Who is this? "Yesterday is Osiris, and To-day is Ra, when he shall destroy the enemies of Neb-er-tcher (the lord to the uttermost limit), and when he shall establish as prince and ruler his son Horus. "Others, however, say that To-day is Ra, on the day when we commemorate the festival of the meeting of the dead Osiris with his father Ra, and when the battle of the gods was fought, in which Osiris, the Lord of Amentet, was the leader." What is this? "It is Amentet, [that is to say] the creation ofthe souls of the gods when Osiris was leader in Set-Amentet. "Others, however, say that it is the Amentet which Ra hath given unto me; when any god cometh he must rise up and fight for it. "I know the god who dwelleth therein." Who is this? "It is Osiris. Others, however, say that his name is Ra, and that the god who dwelleth in Amentet is the phallus of Ra, wherewith he had union with himself. "I am the Benu bird which is in Anu. I am the keeper of the volume of the book (the Tablet of Destiny) of the things which have been made, and of the things which shall be made." Who is this? "It is Osiris. "Others, however, say that it is the dead body of Osiris, and yet others say that it is the excrement of Osiris. The things which have been made, and the things which shall be made [refer to] the dead body of Osiris. Others again say that the things which have been made are Eternity, and the things which shall be made are Everlastingness, and that Eternity is the Day, and Everlastingness the Night. "I am the god Menu in his coming forth; may his two plumes be set on my head for me." Who is this? "Menu is Horis, the Advocate of his father [Osiris], and his coming forth means his birth. The two plumes on his head are Isis and Nephthys, when these goddesses go forth and set themselves thereon, and when they act as his protectors, and when they provide that which his head lacketh. "Others, however, say that the two plumes are the two exceedingly large uraei which are upon the head of their father.

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faslimy said:
There is no evidence of a primitive Egypt, it is as if they spawned with their advanced knowledge and then disapeared. That is not the way it normally goes right? You start with the basics, learning stuff along the way you get more and more advanced?

This was not the case with the Egyptians

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