Jean WINAND, Hieroglyphs: A Language and Writing Like Others?
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Doctor in Oriental Languages and Literatures, Jean WINAND is a full professor at the University of Liège where he was also Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and Vice-Rector. He also teaches at the Université libre de Bruxelles. His research fields are mainly the language and philology of ancient Egypt, as well as literature and the history of ideas. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Hieroglyphs: a language and writing like others? Hieroglyphic writing, which can be traced back to the late 4th millennium, remained in use until the end of the 3rd century AD. The number of signs used—between 1000 and 7000 depending on the period—places it squarely in the class of complex, non-alphabetic scripts. Indeed, hieroglyphic writing combines three categories of signs: logograms, phonograms, and semantic classifiers. One of its peculiarities is having maintained a strong link with its original iconic dimension throughout its history. The history of this writing reveals a dual tension between a phonetic pole, which could have led to the creation of an alphabet, and an iconic pole, which resulted in a symbolic interpretation in the Greco-Roman period, persisting into the Renaissance and until the second half of the 18th century.
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