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Noun Concept
Categories: 4th-millennium BC establishments, Egyptian inventions, Defunct writing systems, Ancient Egyptian language, Articles with short description
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hieratic  hieratic script  Egyptian hieratic  hieratic writing  ISO 15924:Egyh
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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
Demotic
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
LANGUAGE OF WORK OR NAME
Egyptian
LOCATION
ancient Egypt
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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hieratic, hieratic script
Wikipedia
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hieratic
Wikidata
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Egyptian hieratic
Wiktionary
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hieratic
Wikipedia Redirections
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Egyptian hieratic, hieratic script, hieratic writing, ISO 15924:Egyh

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