Re: A linguistic Question about Hieroglyphics and language



josephus wrote:



António Marques wrote:

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.




 I ma grateful for the effort to respond.

I am interested in comparing coptic with late Hieroglyphic sources. Not as thematic but as a mapping of the orthography. I am interested in how the various symbols are transliterated. how well does hieroglyphic llanguage map onto the Greek characters. Greek did not translate Egyptian names very closely. The language of coptic should have some, for the moment, square corners. Egyptian should not fit very well under a greek alphabet..
I would accept a primer on coptic.
I am looking at analysing the languages involved.

     josephus


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.



by the way, the example on the web page seems to say " Earth king his house" but I don't speak as an authority. I noticed it looked like heraitic. and I have some character examples of that.

          josephus

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