The Anthon Transcript, An Evidence for the Truth of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s account of the origin of the Book of Mormon. (Improvement Era, January. 1942, by Ariel L. Crowley)
Three ways to write bʼalam using combinations of the logogram with the syllabic signs as phonetic complements. From left to right: bʼa-bʼalam, bʼalam-ma, and bʼa-bʼalam-ma
𓆮 𓆥 𓆖 𓆒 𓋵 𓆯 𓈬 𓉑 𓋘 𓆋 𓌋 𓌽 𓏀 𓏟 𓐑
Hieroglyphic writing representing a pintail duck is read in Egyptian as sꜣ, derived from the main consonants of the Egyptian word for this duck: 's', 'ꜣ' and 't'. (Note that ꜣ or , two half-rings opening to the left, sometimes replaced by the digit '3', is the Egyptian alef.) => the ꜣ and ꜥ are commonly transliterated as "a[h]", as in Ra (rꜥ)...
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Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
Image: 8489
File date: 2010-11-06
Caption: Maya Lady
Description: Maya. Painted ceramic. Kneeling Lady holding pouring vessel aka pitcher. Similar ceramic have been found in the MUndo Perdido of Tikal.
Egyptian Hieroglyph, UNICODE Range: 13000–1342F, pg 3
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 BC until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BC.
Demotic 'sekh shat' (writing for documents) or popular script, developed from a northern variant of the Hieratic script in around 660 BC. During the 26th Dynasty it became the preferred script at court.
Key features of the Demotic script:
A "mixed script": Demotic uses a mix of sign types.
Phonetic signs: These represent sounds, and can be uniliteral (single consonant sounds), biliteral (two-consonant sounds), or even triliteral (three-consonant sounds). A basic "alphabet" of 25 consonantal signs can be identified.
Determinatives: These are non-phonetic signs placed at the end of a word to indicate its meaning or category, which helps to disambiguate words that are spelled the same.
Extensive ligatures: The highly cursive nature of Demotic means that many signs are formed by linking two or more simpler signs together. This makes the script more efficient for scribes but also more difficult to decipher, as many words and signs must be decoded into single units.