Re: Ah-ha! New computer, YANC and fluency
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 13, 2000, 20:43 |
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At 12:42 13.4.2000 -0500, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>I've been working on a Revived Egyptian (I can't call it Restored
>Egyptian anymore, since I found that the Mormons have claimed that
>name). It seems to be mostly a matter of figuring out vowelling
>patterns. The grammar of Egyptian turns out to be far more
>fleshed out by current scholars than I had thought.
Check out:
Author: Loprieno, Antonio
Title: Ancient egyptian : a linguistic introduction / Antonio Loprieno
Published: Cambridge : New York : Cambridge Univ. Press
Year: 1995
Description: tab. 322 s.
ISBN: 0-521-44384-9 (inb.)
0-521-44849-2 (hft.)
Subject: Ftaa, Språk Fornegyptiska
Working backwards from Coptic vocalism isn't easy, as Lepsius pointed out!
The traditional egyptologist pronunciation with zero = /e/, 3 and ` = /a/
and w = /u/ has something going for it to us who speak pharyngeal-deprived
tongues. Maybe one could use /o/ for 3 or ` to distinguish them. Yikes, I
even use a raspy voiceless /R/ for .h!
A search on turned up this URL: http://www.friesian.com/egypt.htm Title:
"The Pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian".
Enjoy!
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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