On the Rosetta Stone there were 3 different languages, why would they put 3 languages on one stone. Why not just put them on 3 different stones. The languages were greek, demotic, and hieroglyphics(pic above). Why did they pick those 3 languages, why not French, English and then Hieiroglypics. Lets talk about Hieroglyphics this language had its own symbols, sounds, and meanings to different things. Each symbol had its own reason for what it meant if it was an animal the reason it was used was because that is the sound that animal makes. Jean-Francois Champollion found out that some of the signs were phonetic and not symbotic to the language.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Languages on the Rosetta Stone
On the Rosetta Stone there were 3 different languages, why would they put 3 languages on one stone. Why not just put them on 3 different stones. The languages were greek, demotic, and hieroglyphics(pic above). Why did they pick those 3 languages, why not French, English and then Hieiroglypics. Lets talk about Hieroglyphics this language had its own symbols, sounds, and meanings to different things. Each symbol had its own reason for what it meant if it was an animal the reason it was used was because that is the sound that animal makes. Jean-Francois Champollion found out that some of the signs were phonetic and not symbotic to the language.
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i could never be able to figure that out
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