<div dir="ltr">Besides, Lepsius calls it "spiritus lenis" because I doubt that at the time there was a specific term for "glottal stop", but it had already been suggested that the Greek character "spiritus lenis" was the equivalent of a semitic aliph, i.e. the equivalent of a glottal stop.<div>However, on the one hand we don't really know if the Greek "spiritus lenis" was really a glottal stop (i.e. an aliph, i.e. the equivalent of the phoneme meant in the egyptian transliteration), and on the other during the past century our perception of phonetics in general has evolved, and therefore we have terms, like "glottal stop", which are more precise and accurate than those used at the time of Lepsius.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Marwan Kilani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:odusseus@gmail.com" target="_blank">odusseus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Couldn't they just be called "glottal stop + a", "glottal stop + i", "glottal stop + u" or something like that?<div><br></div><div>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).</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Marwan Kilani</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Michael Everson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:everson@evertype.com" target="_blank">everson@evertype.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Lepsius, the source of this mark, clearly identifies it with the spiritus lenis.<div><br></div><div><img id="m_-5799809623219594448m_78703830373766903916B4FCB34-AD49-428F-AB7D-A71AA77ACA0C" src="cid:7561759A-5D2B-41B2-AE29-B14AEE087F19@local"></div></div><br></span><span class="">______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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