Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>
> Soccerbrat719
> > I am trying to wite it in Ancient Egyptian.
>
> I don't quite understand your problem.
>
> If you want to *WRITE* the Ancient Egyptian language with the Ancient
> Hieroglyphic script, of course you don't write the vowels... You could not
> write them even if you wanted, because (a) the script has no signs for
> vowels, and (b) we don't know how the vowels were pronounced (which is a
> circular argument: we don't know them because they were not written).
>
> The problem arises only when you want to *READ* Ancient Egyptian *ALOUD*,
> because you cannot of course utter a string of consonants without
> intervening vowels.
>
> Egyptologists solve this issue using these two tricks:
>
> 1) some consonants are read as if they were vowels;
>
> 2) vowel "e" is inserted at pleasure to break groups of consonants
> that would not be pronounceable.
>
> The five consonants which are read as vowels are the first ones (top row,
> from left) in this table:
>
> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/egyptian.htm#unicons
>
> Their conventional sounds are "a", "i", "i", "a", and "u", respectively.
>
> Of course, the resulting pronunciation is *NOT* the actual Egyptian
> pronunciation (which we don't know) but just a conventional one which
> enables Egyptologists to *talk* about their science, as opposed to just
> *write* essays about it.
>
> Hope this helps.

Or, to put it another way, in order to be able to write in Ancient
Egyptian, you need to study Ancient Egyptian, not just its writing
system.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...