01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
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.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
Right to left (RTL)
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System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
08REACH