Hieroglyphics

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How to Read Hieroglyphs & Cartouches

Basic Hieroglyphic Alphabet

Sound or Letter	Example	Hieroglyph		Sound or Letter	Example	Hieroglyph
short A	cat, bar			long O	rose, sew, mow, boat
long A	make, air, way, hey			OO	food, blue
B	baby			OO	book, push
soft C	nice, circus			P	pet
hard C	camel, sick, Christmas			QU	Q+U sounds like K+W, so combine the K and W hieroglyphics
CH	cheese, catch, picture			R	rain
D	dog, delta			soft S	sit, nice, rats
short E	earn, pet			sharp S	dogs, fission, measure
long E	be, bleach, Mary, radio			SH	ship, sugar, mission, friction, machine
F	fish, phone, tough			T	tiger
soft G	gorgeous, gym, judge			TH	Egyptians had no sound for TH. D is probably the closest match.
hard G	girl, ghost			TH	They also didn't have a sound for the TH in thing. Closest match is probably T.
H	how, who			short U	cut, about, ugly
short I	hid, bit			long U	rude, food, blue
long I	hide, byte			V	viper
J	jungle, judge			W	wind, what, cow
K	pick, kid, technology, clique			X	X sounds like K+soft S, so combine the K and soft S hieroglyphs
L	lead, bell			hard Y	you, rayon
M	mummy			vowel Y	use hieroglyph for long E in words like ready and Mary
N	Nile			vowel Y	use hieroglyph for short and long I in words like gym and byte
short O	dog, all, shawl			Z	zebra, dogs, fission, Xerox

Hieroglyph translation guide (not the graphics) originally appears on the web site "The Tomb of the Chihuahua Pharaohs" which can be found listed in Yahoo.

How to Read Hieroglyphs & Cartouches