Hieroglyphs were mostly used for religious/formal writing. Everyday writing in Ancient Egypt used the Heiratic script, which then evolved into the Demotic scri

Hieroglyphs were mostly used for religious/formal writing. Everyday writing in Ancient Egypt used the Heiratic script, which then evolved into the Demotic script, and then finally the Coptic script, which is the Egyptian language written with Greek letters (plus 6 extra letters for sounds the Greek alphabet doesn't cover). The Coptic language is no longer the official spoken language in Egypt (replaced by Arabic), but it's still used today liturgically in the Coptic Orthodox Church. Sort of like how Latin is still used in the Catholic church. What's particularly interesting is that the Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet, which was in turn derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs. Full circle!