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

Marwan Kilani odusseus at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 14:21:37 BST 2017


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).

Marwan Kilani

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
wrote:

> Lepsius, the source of this mark, clearly identifies it with the spiritus
> lenis.
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