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id: "Egyp"
name: "Egyptian hieroglyphs"
historical: true
family: "African"
summary: "Egyptian hieroglyphs is a historical African logo-syllabary, written left-to-right. Were used about 3000 BCE–400 CE for writing the ancient Egyptian language. Combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood."