Revived Egyptian (was: Ah-ha! New computer, YANC and fluency)

At 10:43 PM 04/13/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>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
>
Already got it!

>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
It seems that 3 and ' aren't vowels at all.  3 was most likely /n/, and
' is a glottal stop!

>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".
>
Already got it, too!

>Enjoy!
>
>
Awti ib.k!

>/BP
-- Terry

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