Hieratic
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Hieratic (/haɪəˈrætɪk/; Ancient Greek: ἱερατικά, romanized: hieratiká, lit. 'priestly') 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 BCE until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BCE. It was primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus.[1]
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Hieratic | |
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Script type | with consonants |
Time period | c. 3200 BC – 3rd century AD |
Direction | Mixed |
Languages | Egyptian language |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian hieroglyphs
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Child systems | Demotic possibly inspired Byblos syllabary |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Egyh (060), Egyptian hieratic |
Unicode | |
U+13000–U+1342F (unified with Egyptian hieroglyphs) | |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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