Hieroglyphics is a dead language. The current national language of Egypt is Egyptian Arabic, using Standard Arabic in the most used written form.

No, they use Arabic or Coptic (which both have their own alphabets). "Egyptian hieroglyphs (pronounced /ˈhaɪərəʊɡlɪf/; from Greek á¼±ερογλύφος "sacred carving", also hieroglyphic = τá½° á¼±ερογλυφικά [γράμματα]) was a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that contained a combination of logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood. Less formal variations of the script, called hieratic and demotic, are technically not hieroglyphs." "The first known attempts at deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs were made by Arab historians in medieval Egypt during the 9th and 10th centuries. By then, hieroglyphs had long been forgotten in Egypt, and were replaced by the Coptic and Arabic alphabets. Dhul-Nun al-Misri and Ibn Wahshiyya were the first historians to be able to at least partly decipher what was written in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, by relating them to the contemporary Coptic language used by Coptic priests in their time." "The real breakthrough in decipherment began with the discovery of the Rosetta Stone by Napoleon's troops in 1799 (during Napoleon's Egyptian invasion). In the early 1800s scholars such as Silvestre de Sacy, Johan David Åkerblad and Thomas Young studied the inscriptions on the stone, and were able to make some headway. Finally, Jean-François Champollion made the complete decipherment by the 1820s" "Hieroglyphs survive today in two forms: Directly, through half a dozen Demotic glyphs added to the Greek alphabet when writing Coptic; and indirectly, as the inspiration for the original alphabet that was ancestral to nearly every other alphabet ever used, including the Roman alphabet." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Hieroglyphics Further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_alphabet