Re: Ancient Egyptian

R A Brown skrev:
> Michael Adams wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any ideas how it was spoken?
>
>
> See:
> http://www.friesian.com/egypt.htm
>
Loprieno, whose linguistic introduction to
AE <http://tinyurl.com/hz83m> I've plugged for
several times on this list, claims that in the
Old Kingdom the word |nTr| "god" was pronounced
[na:caR\].  While it would seem right that
|T/ṯ/tj| be [c] I'm not so sure how he can know
the vowels at such an early time, unless from
comparative evidence, and even more baffled at
the supposition that |r| was [R\]!  After all
the lang had /?\/, so that seems a hard distinction
to make while there being no [r]...  I once heard
an Arab living in South Sweden use [?\] for the
[R] /r/ of South Swedish, so there's no question
that pharyngeals and uvulars are very similar!

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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

    "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
    it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
    means "no"!

                            (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)

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