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Hieroglyphs are Not the Same as English - Translation Guide
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The hieroglyphic language contains more than two thousand symbols, some representing words, others representing full ideas, and others representing sounds (phonetic). Depending on how the symbols is used, the same symbol might represent an idea in one hieroglyphic sentence, and a sound in a different sentence! Since it is a phonetic language, the symbols represent sounds. For example. the Basket symbol is a hard “C” sound, used to start the name Carla, or Cleopatra, but it would not be the correct choice for the name Cindy, since the English letter ‘C’ now represents the soft C, or ‘S’ sound,...