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

[Marwan Kilani]

"LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GLOTTAL STOP"

Yes, that's what I meant..



On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Stéphane polis <s.polis at ulg.ac.be> wrote:

> Not sure that I get what you mean here, Michael.
>
> Could you be more explicit, What would be the problem with: LATIN CAPITAL
> LETTER I WITH GLOTTAL STOP?
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> Le 1 juin 2017 à 15:34, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> a écrit :
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> Spiritus lenis is a name for the diacritical mark.
>
> No, we cannot use names LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP PLUS A.
>
> The requirement is for the names to be unique identifiers. LATIN CAPITAL
> LETTER I WITH SPIRITUS LENIS is that.
>
> Michael
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> On 1 Jun 2017, at 14:27, Marwan Kilani <odusseus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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