Re: Ancient Egyptian writng (was: [Theory] Types of numerals)

Heiroglyphs? Herotic, Demotic or Coptic?

Well, from what I know they often used whole words or whole syllybles? Or
groupings, much like you see in Chinese..

Apis the bull, which thru many changes, became Alpha, or Aleph, or Alif,
namely our letter A and related sounds to it.. To include the Hebrew and
Arabic letters.

But my info is 30 years old, so .. Back when I was into Paleographics and
Egyptology and like fields..

Mike

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----- Original Message -----
From: "R A Brown" <ray@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:49 PM
Subject: Ancient Egyptian writng (was: [Theory] Types of numerals)


> Paul Bennett wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:34:22 -0500, R A Brown
> > <ray@...>  wrote:
> >
> >> the Egyptians only expressed consonants, never vowels)
> >
> >
> > FYI, that's contraversal recently, in the right circles, AIUI.
>
> It must be recent - I thought my info was reasonably up-to-date. Could
> you point me to the 'right circles' which controvert the accepted wisdom
> that the phonetic symbols in ancient Egyptian writing represent one, two
> or three consonants?
>
>
>
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