Re: A linguistic Question about Hieroglyphics and language



Peter T. Daniels wrote:

josephus wrote:

I am working my way through a  copy of the  rosetta stone hieroglyphics.
I noticed that the 'Misspellings of Ptolemy' are not exactly wrong.  the
rope is a vowel, and it appears the first author is using spoken
Egyptian.  The lower part seems to be written by a different person.



The rope is not a vowel. No vowels are recorded in Egyptian writing.

Maybe you're using Budge?


This cause me to think about statistical analysis of language forms.
suppose for arguments sake we can divide Egyptian language in to 3 time
ranges.  changes form 1 to 2 are small,  changes form 2 to 3 are small.
but we only have one 'late' 'spoken. example.   I know, it s not a true
example.



No idea what you're talking about. Look at Antonio Loprieno's *Ancient
Egyptian* (Cambridge).


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.



Have you even read Budge's account of the decipherment? For once he was
fairly accurate.


note is there a table of phonemes for Ionic Greek?  or which ever one
was used for coptic.

I am interested in the orthography of coptic and was trying to ask an intelligent question. I failed. I would be interested in text an a primer of coptic. I have statistical ideas I want to explore. I am interested in how the greek alphabet was used. Egyptian has consonants that are not reflected in greek.
josephus


What on earth is the question? The Greek phonemes are what is
represented in the alphabet. "Ionic" is a large area.

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