[B-Greek] language pronunciation

Alastair Haines haines at alastairs.com
Thu Apr 30 22:46:42 EDT 2009


Ancient Egyptian is one of many examples.

Vowels are not expressed in hieroglyphics, so "e" is used for convenience 
(except with gutteral consonants).

The name of the Sun God is transliterated as either Ra or Re because of 
this.

See Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar (academic, classic)
Collins, How to Read Egyptian (popular, modern)

alastair

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> Can anyone think of any languages, other than Greek, that have had a
> pronunciation "created" for them (such as Erasmian)? I'm not talking about
> distinctions between dialects, socio-economic classes, etc. I'm talking
> about pronunciation that it taught, and used, only in universities.
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