Writing and Printing

Anatolian hieroglyphs

Anatolian hieroglyphs are an indigenous logographic script native to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs. They were once commonly known as Hittite hieroglyphs, but the language they encode proved to be Luwian, not Hittite, and so the term Luwian hieroglyphs is increasingly also used. They are typologically similar to Egyptian hieroglyphs, but do not derive graphically from that script, and they are not known to have played the sacred role as did hieroglyphs in Egypt. There is no demonstrable connection to Hittite cuneiform.

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• ▸Classical Arabic
• ▸112 Piscium
• ▸Dze

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