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

[Marwan Kilani]

I'm quite sure that the IPA glottal stop character does derive from the
Greek spiritus lenis, and the fact that it does not look the same is merely
an historical typographic distinction, and the fact that Egyptological
glottal stop often looks more like the greek spiritus lenis, rather than
the IPA glottal stop character is probably merely due to the fact that
Egyptology as a field was excluded (or did not pay too attention) to the
typographical developments taking place in linguistics and standard
phonetic transcriptions, rather than being due to an explicit desire of
Egyptologist of keeping their "glottal stop" graphically closer to the
Greek spiritus lenis, rather than to the IPA glottal stop.

This considered, I would say that for both Egyptology and Ugaritic studies,
having a series of characters "a/i/u with glottal stop" would be totally
fine, being linguistically accurate. And actually would also have the
positive consequence of bringing our fields a bit closer to standard
linguistic conventions.

If the problem is the ambiguity of the name, one can think to some more
precise definition, such as "a/i/u with superimposed glottal stop" or
something like that.

And if someone wants such superimposed glottal stop to look more like a
spiritus lenis, one can always create a font where it is drawn lake that.




On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Frédéric Grosshans <
frederic.grosshans at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 01/06/2017 à 15:37, Stéphane polis a écrit :
>
>> 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?
>>
> I guess because ʔ U+0294 LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP does not look like the
> proposed character, even if it could denote the same phoneme: Unicode is a
> character encoding standard, not a phonetic standard
>
>
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