Anatolian hieroglyphs
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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 the term Luwian hieroglyphs is used in English publications. 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 of hieroglyphs in Egypt. There is no demonstrable connection to Hittite cuneiform.[2][3][4]
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Anatolian hieroglyphs | |
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Script type | |
Time period | 14th century BC — 7th century BC |
Direction | Left-to-right |
Languages | Hieroglyphic Luwian language |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Hluw (080), Anatolian Hieroglyphs (Luwian Hieroglyphs, Hittite Hieroglyphs) |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Anatolian Hieroglyphs |
U+14400–U+1467F [1] | |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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