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Last update: 03-aug-1997 Lesson 3?The Egyptian Alphabet?Two-Letter Signs and Determinatives The Two-Letter Signs? Besides the 24 one-letter signs which we discussed in the previous lesson, the old Egyptians also made use of signs with the value of two consonants. These two-letter signs use a single hieroglyph that represents a combination of two consonants. There exist about a hundred two-letter signs. Fortunately, not all of them occur frequently in texts, and it suffices to be familiar with about 30 of these signs. The table below summarizes the most frequently occurring two-letter signs.