History and how people in ancient Egypt communicated

1. The ancient people's way of communication is divided into civilian commerce communication and military communication and government communication. At the beginning of human civilization, the communication between two civilizations usually starts with the contact and communication in the civilian life or fighting at the border, and then to a certain scale of commercial interaction, each other have a certain degree of understanding of each other's culture and language, and finally the government level of formal diplomatic activities. However, armies and governments may skip the civilian commercial communication aspect and start directly with conquest and occupation. But after conquest and occupation, effective governance is still accomplished through civilian commerce communication.

2. Communication between civilians and merchants does not require a very high level of literary literacy, and no longer requires systematic study of grammar and vocabulary in school. Mutual understanding of each other's language is something that can be gradually mastered in communication. Even in modern times, all kinds of small foreign trade merchants, all kinds of "black" in the foreign smugglers, can be accomplished through gestures, movements, simple communication. To give a simple example, hungry, you can through the sense of smell, find a food stall or find the residents who are cooking, use your fingers to make the appearance of eating, use your fingers to make the appearance of paying, and use your fingers to make the amount of money to pay, such as stretching out five fingers, and then take out five copper coins, the other side can waved their hands, said no, and then take out the five silver coins, the other side nodded after the receipt of money. Then you can complete a transaction without words, but also fluently. After that, he would point to the food and make all kinds of gestures, expressing a kind of "what is the meaning of this thing called". The other person will understand, will say a word, and you will imitate his pronunciation and repeat, right, the other person will nod and give a thumbs up, wrong, the other person will slow down and repeat again, you repeat again, until you pronounce it correctly, stop the process. In this way, you will know how that food is spoken in that language in that country. To take it a step further, if you think that food is delicious and want to compliment the other person, you will pronounce the food as you have just learned it and give it a thumbs up with gusto. The other person will recognize this and say another word, which you immediately understand means "delicious", and then you repeat the food together with the word "good". At this point, the other person shakes his head and says it again, and you realize that the pronunciation is "good", "another pronunciation", "that food". At this point, you realize that the language in this country, when describing something as "good", the expression is "good", "a particular pronunciation", "that thing". "that thing". Instead of just "that thing", "yummy". And then, as you know, all the other meanings are expressed with that pronunciation. You don't have the concept of "auxiliary", but you directly understand the role of "auxiliary" in this language. When you use this word in this way, the people who use this language will also understand what you mean. So in this kind of communication with gestures and expressions, together with the explanation of the other person's language, you can gradually master the expression of that language. You don't have to "learn" the language from the point of view of grammar and vocabulary. Of course, this kind of gesture communication is not as efficient as analyzing and comparing two languages systematically from the vocabulary and grammar point of view before learning. Moreover, this kind of gesture communication is likely to lead to misunderstanding. For example, when the British asked the Indians what the yellow food with a strong pungent flavor they gave them was called, the Indians replied "this is a dish with spices", and as a result, the British mistakenly thought that the "dish with spices" was a specific dish. As a result, the British mistakenly thought that "spiced dishes" was the name of a specific dish, and as a result, all Indian dishes with spices became "Curry" in English, representing India's "curry". Similarly, when the Portuguese asked the fishermen in Haojing where this place was, the fishermen thought they were asking what the building behind them was, and replied "A-Ma Temple", as a result, "Macau" became the name of Haojing in foreign countries, and became the present "Macau". The result was that "Macao" became the name of Haojing in foreign countries, and it became the current name of "Macau". But this kind of communication and language learning can guarantee that a person who does not understand the language at all, or even has no ability to communicate in other languages, can learn a language. Gradually, more and more such people will become the initial "interpreters" between the two countries. The next stage of civilian trade and communication is written communication, but in ancient times many backward areas did not have writing. However, in ancient times, many backward areas did not have writing, so they had to borrow and create writing. Therefore, Japan invented hiragana and katakana, and Korea directly used Chinese characters. Europe invented Greek and Roman writing on the basis of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. And then script translation came into being.

3. As long as there is a need for communication, all kinds of people can quickly master each other's languages. Of course many languages are at a disadvantage in communication and end up being abandoned. For example, many Indian languages were abandoned and ended up as crypto-languages in wars, a situation reflected in the Wind Whisperer.