Why does Egyptian hieroglyphic writing exhibit limited abstraction compared to the later Phoenician alphabet?

💡 Explanation

Hieroglyphs retained ideographic and logographic elements, which involved direct representation, because their system lacked a complete shift to phonetic representation. Therefore, abstraction remained limited, rather than developing the more abstract, purely phonetic symbols of the Phoenician alphabet.

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