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Front Matter
Meroitic
Script of the Kingdom of Meroe (300 BC–400 AD) in the upper Nile (modern Sudan).
Script of the Kingdom of Meroe (300 BC–400 AD) in the upper Nile (modern Sudan). Derived from Egyptian but developed its own alphabetic system. Egyptologists can read the signs but the underlying language itself is not fully decoded — making it one of the uniquely "readable but not understood" undeciphered languages. The Meroe Pyramids (~200 structures) are inscribed with texts in this script.
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The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
우→좌 (RTL)
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System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
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