Vocalization in Group Writing

The so-called group writing or syllabic orthography is a special orthography used in Egyptian hieroglyphic texts starting from the New Kingdom/Late Bronze Age. The nature and function of this orthography, especially the way it notates vowels, has been a topic of debate for more than a century, witho...

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description The so-called group writing or syllabic orthography is a special orthography used in Egyptian hieroglyphic texts starting from the New Kingdom/Late Bronze Age. The nature and function of this orthography, especially the way it notates vowels, has been a topic of debate for more than a century, without any consensus being reached. In this book, Marwan Kilani presents a new interpretative model that provides a fresh explanation of how the syllabic orthography notates vowels. The author starts from a critical reanalysis of previous suggestions and from a thorough reassessment of the evidence. He then infers the functioning of the system by comparing the group writing spelling of Late Egyptian words surviving in Coptic with the reconstructions of their vocalizations. This approach leads to the recognition of a system that not only coherently explains all the spellings attested in the corpus, but which also produces interpretations of the spellings in group writing that agree with current reconstructions of the Egyptian vocalization. The book contains indexes and an Appendix listing the words analysed in the study.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-334872025-03-12T22:50:48Z Vocalization in Group Writing Kilani, Marwan Egyptology Linguistics Group writing Syllabic orthography Vocalization Loanwords thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics The so-called group writing or syllabic orthography is a special orthography used in Egyptian hieroglyphic texts starting from the New Kingdom/Late Bronze Age. The nature and function of this orthography, especially the way it notates vowels, has been a topic of debate for more than a century, without any consensus being reached. In this book, Marwan Kilani presents a new interpretative model that provides a fresh explanation of how the syllabic orthography notates vowels. The author starts from a critical reanalysis of previous suggestions and from a thorough reassessment of the evidence. He then infers the functioning of the system by comparing the group writing spelling of Late Egyptian words surviving in Coptic with the reconstructions of their vocalizations. This approach leads to the recognition of a system that not only coherently explains all the spellings attested in the corpus, but which also produces interpretations of the spellings in group writing that agree with current reconstructions of the Egyptian vocalization. The book contains indexes and an Appendix listing the words analysed in the study. 2020-08-25T12:18:10Z 2019 book ONIX_20200825_9783943955903_68 ONIX_20200825_9783943955903_68 OCN: 1141338597 0946-8641 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41513 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33487 eng Studia Monographica open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41513/1/9783943955903.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41513/1/9783943955903.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41513/1/9783943955903.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41513/1/9783943955903.pdf Widmaier Verlag 10.37011/studmon.20 10.37011/studmon.20 f2ad3150-9a48-4789-8228-0a71d1fc7b44 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Hamburg open access
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Linguistics
Group writing
Syllabic orthography
Vocalization
Loanwords
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics
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Vocalization in Group Writing
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topic Egyptology
Linguistics
Group writing
Syllabic orthography
Vocalization
Loanwords
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Linguistics
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Vocalization
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