First draft sub description:

Words spoken 🗣️ by the tongue 👅 of the ancient Egyptians, recorded ✍️ by 700+ hiero-symbols and 7+ hiero-numbers, invented by Thoth 𓁟 [C3], the mythical Ibis 𓅞 headed inventor of the Egyptian language. A place to discuss the world’s longest attested language!

The previous old sub icon (left) and new sub icon (right), i.e. the Thoth 𓁟 [C3] icon, the mythical Ibis 𓅞 headed inventor of the Egyptian language:

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Notes

1. Sub was started 3+ years ago by someone whose account has been suspended. Today I adopted the sub.
2. There were 66 members when I adopted the sub; and it was set at “private“.
3. The sub description box was empty when I adopted it.

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Yes, I have an egyptian book

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Looking for mods who will regularly post daily and help this community grow and become a self sustaining community of Egyptian Language and Culture enthusiasts. Hope we can hit a 1000 members by the end of the month!

Hieroglyphic writing doesn't have any spaces between the words, and there's no punctuation. That means that readers have to have a good grasp of ancient Egyptian grammar and know something about the context of a message in order to be able to tell individual words, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and chapters apart. Additionally, unlike modern English, hieroglyphics aren’t necessarily read horizontally from left to right. Hieroglyphics could be written either from left to right, or right to left, and vertically as well as horizontally.

I created a subreddit for fellow Egyptian language enthusiasts! Let's grow it to 1000 members!

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