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Categories: Scripts with ISO 15924 four-letter codes, Naqada III, Bronze Age writing systems, long volume value, Articles with short description

hieratic hieratic script Egyptian hieratic hieratic writing ISO 15924:Egyh

A cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests WordNet 3.0

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A cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Hieratic is the name given to a cursive writing system used for Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BC until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BC. Wikipedia

A writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that was developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus, allowing scribes to write quickly without resorting to the time consuming hieroglyphs. Wiktionary

IS A

hieroglyph

orthography

unicase

logographic writing system

HAS KIND

Demotic

BASED ON

hieroglyph

DERIVATION

hieratic

DERIVATIVE WORK