[gerbilly]

People might be interested to know that Egyptian Hieroglyphics, despite looking even more like pictograms are actually an alphabet.

Another cool fact, in hieroglyphics there is more than one way to write a word, because, unlike most alphabetic systems, some characters are multi syllabic and can represent two or more syllables.

[int_19h]

Wasn't it rather a syllabary?

[gerbilly]

I've never heard it described that way.

And like most semitic languages, hieroglyphics mostly record the consonantal skeleton of a word.

There are additional symbols (determinatives) to disambiguate homonyms.