[Egyptian] Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) documents about Egyptian Hieroglyphic (May 2017)

[Frédéric Grosshans]

Le 01/06/2017 à 15:21, Marwan Kilani a écrit :
> Couldn't they just be called "glottal stop + a", "glottal stop + i", 
> "glottal stop + u"  or something like that?
>
> Because linguistically speaking, this is what those characters 
> represent, both in Egyptian and in Ugaritic (and in whatever other 
> language one wants to use them).

Other latin-written languages use other (already encoded) characters for 
glottal stops : names like glottal stop + a would be ambiguous, and 
would likely be forbidden anyway because it could correspond to “named 
sequences”.

The existing (and actively) used characters are

ʔ U+0294 LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
ˀ U+02C0 MODIFIER LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
Ɂ U+0241 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
ɂ U+0242 LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP

Leading to ʔa, ˀa, and the cased pair ɁA ɂa, which are all different 
from the character discussed here.

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