Egyptian biliteral signs

Egyptian biliteral signs

Biliteral Egyptian hieroglyphs are symbols which represent a specific sequence of two consonants in the language. In the written Egyptian language, three types of hieroglyphs existed: those that represented one consonant (called "uniliteral"), those that represented two consonants (called "biliteral") and those that represented three consonants (called "triliteral").

In the following list, "aleph" is transliterated as "3", "ayin" as Unicode|ˁ and "yodh" as "ı͗".

Common biliteral Egyptian hieroglyphs

ee also

*Transliteration of ancient Egyptian
*Egyptian uniliteral signs
*Egyptian triliteral signs
*List of hieroglyphs

External links

* [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/egyptian_bilat.htm Large list of biliteral Egyptian symbols]


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