Re: Dalmation/Vegliot sound changes (vowels)

Tristan Alexander McLeay skrev:
> On 20/03/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>
>>Roger Mills skrev:
>
>
>>>Would you believe a > u ??
>>
>>Well in ancient Egyptian the vowels shifted full circle
>>several times...
>
>
> Pardon me, but how do we know? Ancient Egyptian didn't have the vowels
> written, did it?
>
> --
> Tristan.
 From AE words (mostly names) written in Cuneiform, Hebrew and Greek
scripts -- especially Cuneiform is quite abundant, since the diplomatic
archives of the late 18. dynasty are preserved -- compared to Coptic,
and last but not least from comparative evidence between other Afro-
Asiatic languages and Coptic.


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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)