Coptic

So if the symbol were Coptic, the first symbol would be "ra".

所以如果这个符号是科普特语，第一个符号就是“ra”。

These ancient Egyptian scripts were replaced by Coptic scripts.

这些古埃及文字被科普特文字所取代。

Hieroglyphs were mainly phonetic; they represented sounds, not pictures, and the underlying language was Coptic.

象形文字主要是语音符号；它们代表的是声音，而不是图像，其本质上的语言是科普特语。

Eventually, the Arabic language replaced Coptic and this cut off the linguistic link between ancient and modern Egypt.

最终，阿拉伯语取代了科普特语，这切断了古埃及和现代埃及之间的语言联系。

You see, unlike any of the other scholars who had tried to crack the code, Champollion happened to be fluent in Coptic.

你看，商博良和任何其他试图破解这个密码的学者都不一样，他碰巧是精通科普特语的。