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Sound Reconstruction: Hieroglyphic A,W,Y
Anaksunamun:
--- Quote from: bashandy on 31 January , 2019, 04:51:54 PM ---I agree with you. It would be an interesting experiment; bearing in mind that it is a 'guestimate' which is applying the vocabulary of the derivative of the same language after thousands of years. The next difficulty is reconstructing 'stresses', intonation, letters that do not have a clear equivalent in Coptic e.g. the voiced pharyngeal derivative (Aiyn in Arabic), and the voiceless pharyngeal fricative (haa in arabic), in addition to the quality of the trill sound. It would be very interesting to hear an audio sample.
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It would be very interesting!! The Egyptian guttural R, in my own opinion, probably sounded like a French or Modern day Hebrew R. This type of sound is not too strong and trends to fall away easily at the end of a syllable which explains it's disappearance or its conversion to an /i/.
The vowels interest me a lot bc they're so erratic in both Cuneiform and in Coptic that it's a bit difficult to work backwards especially with Cuneiform which shows a /u/ where neither Coptic or Egyptian hieroglyphs show any indication of /u/ which tells me that the Akkadians heard a schwa/indescriminate vowel sound.
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