Re: CHAT: New to list

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Couldn't it have been even <unknown vowel sound>K<unknown vowel sound>M<u=
> nknown
> vowel sound>T, or did they have a mandatory glottal stop which could be r=
> ead in
> the script?
The latter is the case.  In the conventional transcription, the glottal stop
is represented by "a" as is the 'ayin-equivalent.  The /j/ letter is
represented by "i" and the /w/ letter by "u", and "e"s are inserted as
needed to make things pronounceable.

Everybody knows that this conventional transcription is a hack that has
nothing to do with actual Egyptian pronunciation, but it's convenient
so that things can be pronounced, even if quite wrongly.

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