Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Beginners. Video 2: Vulture to Oblique Strokes.

This is the second of a series of videos that teaches you in clear concise terms how to read the historic language of ancient Egypt. Today’s video focuses on the first four letters of the Egyptian alphabet, from vulture to the oblique strokes.

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[matrix]

Just found your brilliant lessons, Thank you for breaking this subject down so well, which is making it possible (for the rest of us) to grasp even the basic meanings and done in so many different ways... fascinating, now hooked on learning more..

[echolee]

Recap：

📌 The Egyptian alphabet is unlike its English counterpart.
📌 be dealing with uniliterals in the following lessons，for they are the building blocks of hieroglyphs）
📌 “silent consonants”（just paired with vowels to make it easier to pronounce）

1⃣️ vulture（or alef）𓄿
📝 the “square” back side of head — to distinguish between another similar hieroglyph（more specifically，a multiliteral “tiw-bird”𓅂)
📝 direction of the text can be told by the “face”/“beak” of the vulture

2⃣️ reed leaf（i/j）𓇋
3⃣️ double reed leaf （y，as in “yoke”）𓇌
4⃣️ oblique strokes （y，as in “yoke”）𓏭
（3⃣️ and 4⃣️ are the same letter，just like the two ways of writing the lowercase “g”）

📌 first word：“my vulture”𓄿𓇋
notice the single stroke above the vulture's shoulder，when seeing such a stroke combined with a character，it usually means that the character is supposed to be read as the picture shown～

（Thank you very much and please correct me if there is any mistake in the notes above😹😹

[Mobius]

Youtube doesn't make it easy to go through these videos in order. Only some are shown in the previews on the right. Shouldn't there be some kind of keyword to show them all in order?