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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...