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

[Marwan Kilani]

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.
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.

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Marwan Kilani <odusseus at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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