Re: How many vowels did ancient Egyption language have?

From: Yusuf B Gursey (ybg_at_TheWorld.com)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:20:26 +0000 (UTC)

In sci.lang.translation josephus <dogbird@earthlink.net> wrote in <d_WAd.12719$RH4.3959@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>:

sci.lang added, which is the more appropriate newsgroup for this topic.

: I have some modern sylaberies and I see the admonition that we dont know
: the vowels and Hieroglyphics are only consonants and diphthongs.

they are not attested by the writting sysytem, but there are educated
based on Coptic. there are also some ancient egyptian words rendered in
languages like gree, which give us some clues as to the old vowels.

: So
: 1. Are there any related languages still in existence?

Coptic is a direct descendant of Ancient Egyptian anmd is still in use as
a church language.

: 2. how many speculated vowels are there and
: 3 what are those vowels?

: Its not what you know that gets you in trouble,
: Its what you know that Aint so.
: josephus

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