Monoliteral signs represent one consonant. All of the consonants in the language are represented in this list. Learn the signs, the transliteration of the sound, and the Manuel de Codage (MdC) equivalent of the tranliteration symbol. You can pay less attention to the descriptions of the signs and the English equivalents which are only guides to transcribing Egyptian names into English.

The order these signs appear in is the order which Egyptologists use to "alphabetize" their dictionaries, vocabularies, and word lists. Learn it. This sequence was established by early Egyptologists before modern studies of the sounds of speech were initiated. As a result, the terms used on this page are not technically accurate, but are used to conveniently organize the signs into useful categories.