What are the letters in the Iranian alphabet?

Answer 1

The answer to this question depends on what you mean by "alphabet", and what stage of the language you're talking about.

The fact is that the Egyptians never had an alphabet as it's conventionally defined. What they had was a collection of 5000 or more glyphs (signs), some of which were used to record sounds and some of which represented whole words or conceptual categories. Between 700 and 800 of these were in common use during the Middle Egyptian period, which is considered the language's golden age. Many of the phonetic glyphs represented more than one sound (the hare, for example, represented the consonants wn), and none of them represented vowels.

There was a set of glyphs in Middle Egyptian that were used to write single consonants, but although it would have been possible to write texts in a purely phonetic way using only these glyphs, in the manner of consonant-only alphabets (technically, "abjads") such as Phoenician or Hebrew, this was never actually done.

The collection of glyphs usually referred to as the "Egyptian alphabet" is the set of signs that record a single consonant each ("monoliteral" signs). Scholars usually list 24 or 25 consonants in Middle Egyptian, depending on whether they consider the sounds transliterated as 's' and 'z' to be the same or not. These were distinct phonemes in Old Egyptian, but it's clear that at some point the two sounds had merged and the symbols developed to record them were used interchangeably. A distinction is maintained between 'd' and 'D' (perhaps English 'j') and between 't' and 'T' (perhaps English 'ch'), even though these pairs also began to merge during the Middle Egyptian period. Of these 24 or 25 consonant sounds, five could be written using two different glyphs (for example, 'w' using either a chick or a curlicue).

In later Egyptian, the monoliteral signs were adapted for the alphabetic writing of foreign names. A number of signs were added to the inventory, including symbols for the consonant /l/ (a recumbent lion) and the vowel /o/ (a lasso). The royal names on the Rosetta Stone (196 BCE) are an example of this, since the rulers of Egypt at the time were of Greek ancestry and bore Greek names.

Answer 2

The ancient Egyptians did not have an alphabet, despite the nonsense being published on certain websites. An alphabet consists of around 15 to 30 letters, each representing a single consonant or vowel - the ancient Egyptians used a writing system called hieroglyphs that included many hundreds of signs - and vowels were not written. In the Late Period this increased to many thousands of signs.

The first alphabet was probably developed by the Semitic people of Canaan some time in the 2nd millennium BC.

Answer 3

There are more than 700 letters in the Egyptian alphabet.

Answer 4

The Iranian (or "Farsi") alphabet uses the Arabic alphabet plus 4 extra letters not found in Arabic.

Answer 5

The Egyptian alphabet and writing system were hieroglyphics.

Answer 6

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• Phoenician Alphabet

Answer 7

Ancient Egyptian used a set of 24 symbols called "unilaterals" that represented consonants, but it also used thousands of other symbols for whole words.

Answer 8

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