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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-02-14  |  1.7 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  1 minute, 19 seconds

Transcription: Sometimes, the same combination of hieroglyphs can represent two different words, just as the word orange in English can mean either a fruit or a color. In Egyptian, a sign called a determinative shows a picture of something. The picture helps the reader determine the meaning of the hieroglyphs. Here is a sentence written with hieroglyphs. The first two hieroglyphs in this sentence represent the word follower. The walking feet are a determinative that That means that the word has to do with motion. In this sentence, the word represented by the three symbols together is followed. The man hierog ...

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