5. Describe the two ancient Egyptian forms of written language.
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In the ancient Egyptian language the word for large or big is the same as "great", which can be:wr, written with the sign for a swallow bird'3, written with a wooden column on its sideModern Egyptologists give these words the modern (incorrect) pronunciations wer and aa.
Hieroglyphics.
I guess you mean ancient Egyptian, not modern Egyptian Arabic.We only have hieroglyphs as evidence for the ancient language and these did not write any vowels, only consonants. The writer and ancient readers of those texts knew exactly which vowels should be said, but that knowledge is lost today and we can never know how each word was pronounced.The word for a cat was written with signs spelling miw(where i stands for a consonant sound not found in English, not the vowel i). With unknown vowels included this is clearly an attempt to copy the sound made by domesticated cats.
Developed a written language. one similarity found in both Egyptian and sumerian is that each developed what?
I guess you mean the ancient Egyptian word, not the modern Arabic one.We know how ancient Egyptian words were written, but not how they were said since vowels were not included in hieroglyphs. There is more than one word with that meaning:kfaw [where a is a consonant sound that does not exist in English] - a warriorthr a Syrian warrioraHAwty a warriormryn a Syrian warrior