<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">"Well, you’re stuck with it. The name of the mark is spiritus lenis, and the reading rule for it in Egyptian and Ugaritic is probably /ʔa ʔi ʔu/."</span><br><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">No it is not.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">In egyptological transcriptions it indicates a sign that can be EITHER a i OR a glottal stop, while in Ugaritic it depends on the context: in some context it indicate a vowel followed by a glottal stop, in other a glottal stop followed by a vowel - and this is what it is represented as a vowel with a glottal stop above it.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Seriously: you clearly do not know what these characters are meant to represent (and i wonder how you can assume you know how to encode something you don't understand why has that specific shape in the first place - we are not talking about since that have randomly evolved for centuries as all the other examples you mention, we are talking about specific characters that have been developed by scholars and that have that specific shape because of what they want to represent), i was saying, you clearly do not know exactly what these characters are meant to represent, you ask what we egyptologists think about your suggestion, we (not only me, three egyptologists so far) say that no, we don't think "spiritus lenis" should be in the name, we offer an alternative which </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">a) you have not yet validly dismissed (why the name "glottal stop <b>above</b> i/a/u" should not work? leaving aside the fact you want it to be a spiritus lenis) </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">and </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">b) which has much more general than your suggestion, and has much more potential to be useful as a unicode character even outside egyptian and ugaritic, because it is hard that a linguist will need a "vowel + spiritus lenis" because the "spiritus lenis" is mainly a 19th century concept (except in greek, obviously), but there could be various contexts, for various languages, in which a linguist could make use of a "letter x with superimposed glottal stop". </span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">For intende to transcribe ambiguous forms, in which the glottal stop may occur both before and after the main letter/phoneme.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div>But still, no.</div><div>Because you want ti to be a spiritus lenis. And you have encoded names for to decades. And you know what you are talking about.</div><div>Great arguments.</div><div><br></div><div>Good like with you next 17 years of attempts.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">P.S.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">"</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Because the name we have chosen is more accurate and more useful, and because the name you prefer (A WITH GLOTTAL STOP) is ambiguous anyway,</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">"</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">I suggested a second version: "A WITH GLOTTAL STOP ABOVE IT" (or something like that) which is not ambiguous, i think?</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">---</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">"</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Moreover, what is A WITH GLOTTAL STOP? It it a glottalized a? Is it /ʔa/? Is it /aʔ/?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">"</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">No, iˀ represents i followed by a glottal stop. Glottalization is a different process.</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">"</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div>If this is what you are talking about, then no: you clearly don't know that you are talking about.</div><div><br></div><div>/i<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">ʔ/ represents a i followed by a glottal stop. /iˀ/ represent a glottalised i which in some languages can be realised as "creaky voice" and can be transcribed *also* as /ḭ</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">/ </span></div><div>I quote:</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Glottalization varies along three parameters, all of which are continuums. The </span><i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">degree</i><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> of glottalization varies from none (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_voice" title="Modal voice" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">modal voice</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, </span><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="gmail-IPA" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">[d]</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">) through </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiff_voice" title="Stiff voice" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">stiff voice</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> (</span><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="gmail-IPA" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">[d̬]</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">) and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creaky_voice" title="Creaky voice" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">creaky voice</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> (</span><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="gmail-IPA" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">[d̰]</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">) to full glottal closure (glottal reinforcement or glottal replacement, described below). The </span><i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">timing</i><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> also varies, from a simultaneous single segment </span><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="gmail-IPA" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">[d̰]</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> to an onset or coda such as </span><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="gmail-IPA" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">[ˀd]</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> or </span><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="gmail-IPA" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">[dˀ]</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> to a sequence such as </span><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="gmail-IPA" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">[ʔd]</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> or </span><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="gmail-IPA" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">[dʔ]</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">. </span>"</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottalization#Types">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottalization#Types</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps if you were listening to people who actually know what they are talking about, you wouldn't have been spending 17 years trying to encode these things..</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Michael Everson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:everson@evertype.com" target="_blank">everson@evertype.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 1 Jun 2017, at 15:57, Marwan Kilani <<a href="mailto:odusseus@gmail.com">odusseus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Also, it would be worth remembering that Egyptologists (and "Ugaritologists") use these characters to represent and express *linguistic* concepts, *not* typographical concepts.<br>
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</span>You use the letter “w”, don’t you? You call it “double u”, don’t you? You use the letters ḥ and ḫ, do you not? They are named H WITH DOT BELOW and H WITH BREVE BELOW, not PHARYNGEAL H and UVULAR H.<br>
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> If we use in our transliterations the character "i + semicircular diacritic on top of it" it is to represent a *linguistic* concept, i.e. the fact that a given sign may linguistically behave both like a "i" and like a *glottal stop*.<br>
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</span>Writing systems are not languages. Writing systems are graphs on paper, wood, stone, metal, etc. In the UCS we often use descriptive names.<br>
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Moreover, what is A WITH GLOTTAL STOP? It it a glottalized a? Is it /ʔa/? Is it /aʔ/?<br>
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(Glottalized a is “creaky voice” and is written /a̰/.)<br>
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> We don't use such character to indicate the typographical anecdote that in the 19th century people fancied using the spiritus lenis to represent the glottal stop.<br>
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</span>Get over it.<br>
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> This is irrelevant, from and for an egyptological point of view.<br>
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</span>Really, you’re going to have to get over it.<br>
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> therefore, that "semicircular diacritic on top of it" should be equated with what it represents, i.e. a glottal stop, and not with what it may looks like, i.e. a spiritus lenis.<br>
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</span>What does the letter “c” represent? What do the acute, grave, circumflex, breve, inverted breve, and caron represent?<br>
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> Because egyptologist use it (and will use the new character you want to encode in Unicode) because of what it linguistically represents, not because of what 19th century people fancied and not because of what it looks like in some fonts.<br>
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</span>If you want it to look good in fonts, then the origin of the diacritical mark should be known.<br>
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You have not convinced me, and I have been naming UCS characters for two decades, and I know what I am talking about.<br>
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Michael<br>
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