Re: A linguistic Question about Hieroglyphics and language

josephus wrote:

The other point is has any direct comparison of coptic and
hieroglyphic? I would look on the web but the kinds of things I
care about generate 1000000 entries.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Bronze_Age_alphabets has a
supposed derivation of greek from egyptian hieroglyphs.

I am interested in any information at all. 

I couldn't figure out what your 1st question was, and the 2nd barely
made it.
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