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What's an advantage of an alphabet over hieroglyphics?

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Answer:Alphabets record phonemes, or individual sounds, instead. Egyptian hieroglyphic script is a complicated alphabet of consonants which arose from pictograms. The advantage of such a script is that it can cope with consonant clusters, but it can't write vowels (at least not unambiguously) at all.

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