There are estimated to be only 3 pictographic languages still in use in the world today.

至今，全球各地只有大概三种象形文字还存在着。

Early alphabets that used such shapes allowed more people to read, and let them read faster, eventually replacing cumbersome pictographic writing systems like Egyptian hieroglyphics.

使用这种形状的早期字母让更多的人能够阅读，让他们阅读得更快，最终取代了像埃及象形文字这样繁琐的象形文字系统。