text: egyptiant thing that starts with d? egyptain abc egyptian abc is known as hieroglyphics.that's my fav language!in hieroglyphis,d is represented by a hand.i don't understand this,but i guess they didn't know that dog is called "dog".they probably didn't know what english is!they only used pictures to represent alphabets and things.they must have had their own speaking language,as they were the fist civilization.