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Here are the newest PowerPoint and Video files for Egyptian biliterals.

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Here’s the next installment of PowerPoints and videos of Egyptian biliterals - the second set:

PowerPoint Biliterals 2

Video Biliterals 2

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I’ll be making a series of PowerPoints and videos of Egyptian biliterals and triliterals. Here are the first:

PowerPoint Biliterals 1
Video Biliterals 1

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Pretty interesting story - who knows if the carvings are modern?

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You can click on the link to start the video–no fonts needed! Just use the pause, back, and play buttons to learn the alphabets. NO AUDIO.

Aramaic alphabet in order
Aramaic alphabet mixed
Ugaritic alphabet in order
Ugaritic alphabet mixed
Egyptian pseudo-alphabet in order
Egyptian pseudo-alphabet mixed

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Middle Egyptian does not have an alphabet as the basis for most of its words, but utilizes certain characters as “uniliterals” - characters that have a single sound. These characters are referred to as a “pseudo-alphabet,” and it is these characters that most Egyptian grammars list as the “alphabet.” Here are two PowerPoint [...]