In writing numbers in the hieratic and enchorial the units were placed to the left.
The Egyptians also wrote from right to left in the hieratic and demotic and enchorial styles.
Sometimes the papyri are found written in the enchorial character.
In the 49th we find the name Berenice twice in the Enchorial letters, and once in hieroglyphics; followed here by Arsinoe, possibly as her mother.
It is possible that Phthah may have been meant by the Good god, NUF; but there is here no character at all resembling the Enchorial name of Phthah, which approaches to that of a figure of 4.
On this monument the same inscription is repeated in the Greek and in the Egyptian language, being written in the latter both in hieroglyphics and in the demotic or enchorial character.
The inscriptions were in three kinds of writing; the upper text in hieroglyphic characters, the second in a later form of Egyptian writing, called enchorial or demotic, and the third was in Greek.
On that stone there is an inscription in Hieroglyphics, the sacred symbolic language of the early Egyptians; another in the Enchorial or spoken language of that most ancient people, and a mutilated inscription in Greek.
The geologist has mastered the characters, and page after page of the old interleaved annals of preadamite existence are being reduced to our enchorial text--to the writing of the people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enchorial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
