Re: Re: Back in the Saddle

From: Christophe <xof_at_chanticleer.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:02:45 -0700

On 12 Apr 2006, at 10:56, tschibasch wrote:
> An interesting language that has truly died off is Ancient Egyptian.
> We have an idea how it sounded, since we have figured out the
> consonants and consonantal clusters. But the vowels are unknown. So
> our best efforts to reproduce it would have to be off.

Isn't Coptic a linear descendant of Ancient Egyptian, though? Of
course, the vowels could have shifted all over the place, but doesn't
that give us a clue as to what they might have been?
Received on 2006-04-12 11:03:31