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 Translation for 'hieroglyphic' from English to French
NOUN   a hieroglyphic | hieroglyphics
SYNO hieroglyph | hieroglyphic | hieroglyphical
ling.
hiéroglyphique {adj}
hieroglyphic
ling.
écriture {f} hiéroglyphique
hieroglyphic script
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Usage Examples English
  • Hieroglyphic Luwian is the corpus of Luwian texts written in a native script, known as Anatolian hieroglyphs.
  • The Mayan hieroglyphic texts excavated from this region were advanced, indicating a great level of complex interaction between cities and their political leaders.
  • Her main interests are the semiotics of the hieroglyphic script, intercultural relations: Egypt and the Levant, metaphors and literary images in ancient Egyptian literature and the origin of the alphabet.
  • In 1984 a committee was charged with the task to develop a uniform system for the encoding of hieroglyphic texts on the computer.
  • In December 2017, Zangger and the Dutch linguist Fred Woudhuizen published in the Dutch archeology journal "Talanta" the Luwian hieroglyphic drawings (including texts from Edremit, Yazılıtaş, Dağardı and Şahankaya) that were retrieved from Mellaart's estate.

  • Anatolian hieroglyphs are an indigenous hieroglyphic script native to western Anatolia, used to record the Hieroglyphic Luwian language.
  • Hieratic developed as a cursive form of hieroglyphic script in the Naqada III period of Ancient Egypt, roughly 3200–3000 BC.
  • Still attending graduate school, Schele founded the Maya Hieroglyphic Workshop in Texas in 1977 which consisted of 21 consecutive seminars concerning Maya hieroglyphic writing and introduced more people intrigued by the Maya field than many other books from that time that were considered "popular".
  • (using a list with 86 demotic words), and then studied the hieroglyphic alphabet but initially failed to recognise that the demotic and hieroglyphic texts were paraphrases and not simple translations.
  • Twenty-four uniliteral signs make up the so-called hieroglyphic alphabet.

  • Yod originated from a hieroglyphic “hand”, or *yad.
  • Besides "alphabetic-t", the "bread bun" is used for words that are feminine, as an end qualifying determinant, often shown before other qualifying ideograms or determinants in the hieroglyphic word block-(quadrat hieroglyphic block).
  • The Pharaonic Tayma inscription is a hieroglyphic petroglyph found near the oasis of Tayma in Tabuk Region, Saudi Arabia.
  • Hieroglyphic Luwian is read boustrophedonically, with the direction of any individual line pointing into the front [...] of the animals or body parts constituting certain hieroglyphs.
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