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Excerpt from First Steps in Egyptian: A Book for Beginners Every hieroglyphic could be used either to express an idea, 111 which case it is called an ideograph, or as a character which represented a sound, in which case it is called a phonetic; phon etic characters may be either alphabetic or syllabic. Thus fi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.