Re: Mandombe

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From: Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>

> Den 10. jan. 2007 kl. 16.08 skrev Paul Bennett:
>
> > The Egyptian Heiroglyphic script grew over thousands
> > of years from pre-writing,
> > then evolved into Heiratic and Demotic, and left its legacy in
> > Coptic.
> Well, Coptic is written mostly with Greek or Greek-like
> characters. Only a few are directly from Demotic.
Yes. Those few characters are the "legacy" of Demotic that I wrote
about.

> But Demotic also gave rise
> to all the other Levantic scripts, including Greek.
I've never heard about that before. I understood that Canaanite
Phoenecian texts existed roughly a
thousand years before the first Demotic texts, though there are some
claims that an almost-entirely
undeciphered script seemingly based on Heiratic (as such, an older
"sister" to Demotic, perhaps?) was
a major inspiration of the Canaanite Phoenecian system, though
parallels can also be found in
Sumerian and Ugaritic. Indeed, parallels can also be found between
Sumerian and Early Egyptian, so
the waters seem to be at least a little muddy.




Paul

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