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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Tagalog_languageTagalog language - Wikipedia

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   Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ /, tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.

   • Tagalog People

     Etymology. The commonly perpetuated origin for the endonym...

   • Austronesian Language

     The Austronesian languages (/ ˌ ɔː s t r ə ˈ n iː ʒ ən /)...

   • Tagalog Phonology

     This article deals with current phonology and phonetics and...

   • Bisayan Languages

     The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of...

   • Philippine Languages

     The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group...

   • Wikang Tagalog

     Ang wikang Tagalog (Baybayin:ᜏᜒᜃᜅ᜔ ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔), o ang Tagalog,...

   • Batangas

     Batangas, officially the Province of Batangas (Tagalog:...

   • Hieratic

     Hieratic (/ h aɪ ə ˈ r æ t ɪ k /; Ancient Greek: ἱερατικά,...

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Filipino_languageFilipino language - Wikipedia

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   Today's Filipino language is best described as "Tagalog-based". The language is usually called Tagalog within the Philippines and among Filipinos to differentiate it from other Philippine languages, but it has also come to be known as Filipino to differentiate it from the languages of other countries; the former implies a regional origin, the ...

3. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › hieraticHieratic Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   The meaning of HIERATIC is constituting or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing simpler than the hieroglyphic. How to use hieratic in a sentence.

4. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishHIERATIC | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   relating to or like priests, or ceremonies performed by priests: He spoke words of power in a hieratic ritual language. She raised both her arms in a hieratic gesture, as if in some kind of blessing. These indigenous traditions are hieratic and they are little known to outsiders. language, history specialized.

5. escholarship.org › uc › itemHieratic - eScholarship

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   Hieratic is the name given to Egypt’s oldest cursive system of hieroglyphs, which was used primarily as handwriting and served as a multifunctional script for more than three millennia, until the third century BCE. As early as 1820, Champollion recognized the connection between hieroglyphics and hieratic.

6. www.oed.com › dictionary › hieratic_adjhieratic, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...

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   What does the adjective hieratic mean? There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective hieratic . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   What does hieratic mean?

   • Hieratic can also be an adjective meaning " [o]f or associated with sacred persons or offices; sacerdotal ." Hieratic developed as a cursive form of hieroglyphic script in the Naqada III period of Ancient Egypt, roughly 3200–3000 BCE.

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   What is a hieratic writing system?

   • Hieratic ( / haɪəˈrætɪk /; Ancient Greek: ἱερατικά, romanized : hieratiká, lit. 'priestly') is the name given to a cursive writing system used for Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BCE until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BCE.

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   Where did the word 'hieratic' come from?

   • The term derives from the Greek for "priestly writing" ( Koinē Greek: γράμματα ἱερατικά) because at that time, for more than eight and a half centuries, hieratic had been used traditionally only for religious texts and literature. Hieratic can also be an adjective meaning " [o]f or associated with sacred persons or offices; sacerdotal ."

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   What is a hieratic text?

   • Hieratic is often present in any given period in two forms, a highly ligatured, cursive script used for administrative documents, and a broad uncial bookhand used for literary, scientific, and religious texts. These two forms can often be significantly different from one another.

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