Re: Optimum number of symbols
From: | Balazs Sudar <conlang@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 6:37 |
> >a term I found in a delightful little book called
> >"Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Everyone" by Joseph and Lenore Scott. The
> >determinatives convey semantic information that helps differentiate
> >homophones in writing. Also, in Egyptian hieroglyphs, these characters
> >served to indicate the termination of a word, just as spaces separate words
> >in our modern roman writing.
>
> Co-incidentally, I've been looking more closely at Egyptian hieroglyphic
> system also over the past few weeks :)
Is there anything about hieroglyphs on internet? I mean not pages like "look at
my name written in hieroglyphs", etc., but something more scientific...