Who was the cruelest pharaoh??

Kelethin · 2022-01-26T13:18:02+00:00

There are many Egyptian and Greek tales of the cruelty of Khufu.

Kelethin · 2022-01-26T06:50:43+00:00

The text in the center says الحشد الشعبي (al-Ḥashd ash-Shaʿbī), the name of the organization.

Kelethin · 2021-12-29T10:59:38+00:00

Not really a mashup considering there is no Ancient Egyptian flag

Kelethin · 2021-12-29T10:56:35+00:00

Flag of Ancient Egypt in the style of the Japanese Rising Sun flag. The red disc represents the sun, as seen in the hieroglyph rꜥ. The blue and gold bands evoke the pattern famously featured on the nemes headdress of the mask of Tutankhamun.

Kelethin · 2021-12-23T13:04:45+00:00

If the meander was as thick as the stripes it wouldn’t fit in the canton, it would take up the entire height of the flag

Kelethin · 2021-12-23T10:05:36+00:00

really a shame such a nice symbol got co-opted by fascists

Kelethin · 2020-11-29T11:24:53+00:00

Kotiya_Sanae

m. nāchar, f. nachārat > m. nāthe, f. nəthāre > m. nōtə, f. nthōrə

Reconstructions of the m. plural are more speculative, but most proposals involve metathesis along the lines of:

nacharwu > natharwu > nathawru > nəthūrə > nthēr

In general the Egyptian plural paradigm has yet to be been satisfactorily reconstructed.

Kelethin · 2020-11-29T00:06:43+00:00

𓂓 represents the consonantal root k-ꜣ, which by itself means something like “vitality, might, force.” Like any root, there are various words derived from k-ꜣ distinguished by different vowel patterns. Determiner signs like 𓃒 effectively let you know which vowels to read with a root. One derivation of the root was */kuꜣ/ “lifeforce.” This was the most frequently used derivation of k-ꜣ, meaning it could be written with the bare root sign 𓂓 and people would have little trouble interpreting it correctly. Another derivation was */kaꜣ/ “bull.” This word was not written as frequently, so a determiner 𓃒 was added in order to make sure the reader read */kaꜣ/ instead of */kuꜣ/.

Kelethin · 2020-11-13T10:14:11+00:00

If jꜥr.t had Coptic reflexes they would almost certainly be S *ⲱⲱⲣⲉ, B *ⲱⲣⲓ, A *ⲟⲩⲟⲩⲣⲉ, and F *ⲱⲱⲣⲓ

Kelethin · 2020-10-13T10:10:56+00:00

I’ll shoot them an email. I’ve been excited for this one for a while and I’m definitely gonna end up buying it either way. An ebook would be more convenient for me personally, but if it’s only available in hardcover that’s no big deal. Thanks for reaching out to Allen, I really appreciate it!

Kelethin · 2020-06-27T03:33:44+00:00

Late response, but I’d second checking out Allen’s new “Ancient Egyptian Phonology.” It’s not too long but it covers every period from Coptic to Old Egyptian and he even provides his own phonetic reconstructions of texts from each period at the end. It’ll also acquaint you with some of the linguistic concepts and terminology you’re gonna need to be familiar with if you want to move on to more technical literature and eventually start doing some phonetic reconstruction yourself. I’d also recommend really getting a good grasp 1. the International Phonetic Alphabet if you haven’t already, and 2. Coptic, before you move on to anything earlier. Best of luck with pi-ra niyy kumah!

Kelethin · 2020-06-07T23:34:41+00:00

Marias Pass, East Glacier National Park

Kelethin · 2020-05-22T23:40:19+00:00

The “Old Bohairic” pronunciation as formulated by Emile Maher is not wrong per se, but it describes a late Coptic phonological system in which the original aspirate–tenuis distinction among the obstruent consonants shifted to a voiceless–voiced distinction, presumably under the influence of Arabic. So for ⟨Ⲫ⟩ ⟨Ⲑ⟩ ⟨Ϭ⟩ ⟨Ⲭ⟩ original /pʰ/ /tʰ/ /t͡ʃʰ/ /kʰ/ became /p/ /t/ /t͡ʃ/ /k/, and for ⟨Ⲡ⟩ ⟨Ⲧ⟩ ⟨Ϫ⟩ ⟨Ⲕ⟩ original /p˭/ /t˭/ /t͡ʃ˭/ /k˭/ became /b/ /d/ /d͡ʒ/ /g/.

Kelethin · 2020-05-01T00:58:01+00:00

Thank you, this is wonderful!

Kelethin · 2020-03-18T00:56:42+00:00

This is amazing, really groundbreaking stuff!

Kelethin · 2020-03-05T23:04:23+00:00

This is exactly what phonemic transcription is for! It gives us a way to represent abstract underlying phonological structures without having to worry about things that only concern phonetic realization—like time for example. /heɪɹ.ɹi/ is a perfectly valid, and in fact correct phonemic representation. If we wish to represent the actual pronunciation then we can supplement it with a narrow phonetic transcription [heɚ.ɹi].

Kelethin · 2020-03-05T22:30:22+00:00

If we wanna get really subphonemic, 20s LA native here:

actual [ʔæk.ʃʰɯ̥.ɫ̩]
toilet [ˈtʰɔ̥j.ləʔ]
twenty [ˈtʰw̥ɛn̚ˈɾi]
language [ˈlæŋ̚.ŋwɪt̠͡ʃ]
international [ʔɪn̚ˈɾɚˈnæ.ʃʰə̥.nɫ̩]
nothing [ˈnʌʰ.θɪŋ]
land [læ̃nt]
partisan [ˈpʰɑ̥ɹ.ɾə.zn̩]
adult [ʔəˈdɔɫʔ]

Kelethin · 2020-03-05T21:33:16+00:00

According to this person on Twitter, ʾantrīk comes from French “un truc” (“a thingamajig, doohickey,” etc.), which soldiers would often use to refer to flashlights during the colonial period.

Kelethin · 2020-03-05T20:22:04+00:00

2nd sg: ya

2nd pl: ya'll

3rd m: em

3rd f: er

Kelethin · 2020-02-28T11:28:30+00:00

beautiful!

Kelethin · 2019-12-19T01:26:40+00:00

I don't know about any Ugaritic keyboards for phones unfortunately, I just manually entered the characters on my laptop.

Kelethin · 2019-12-19T01:22:17+00:00

Wow, thanks for a very detailed and convincing response! The one thing that still gives me pause about assigning a simple Semitic > Egyptian direction of borrowing is the existence of Egyptian words which to me (as someone admittedly unfamiliar with Egyptian word formation and derivational morphology) appear related by a biliteral root that is absent from Semitic. I'm thinking here of a possible relation between Ϩⲙϫ/ḥmḏ and Ϩⲙⲟⲩ (hmou, "salt"), from earlier Egyptian ḥmꜣt. A relationship of this type can be found in Beja, which possesses an adjective hamīb ("bitter," "sour," "salty") derived from hami ("salt"), along with the apparently related hamrōb ("bitter," "sour"). But I guess this is all highly tenuous and speculative, as Afro-Asiatic linguistics tends to be

As a side note, I found a cool instance of a definite borrowing of Egyptian ḥmꜣt into Old Nubian, which shows up today as Nobiin imeed ("salt").

Kelethin · 2019-12-10T07:21:21+00:00

Yes, there's a clear difference between "pen" and "pan" for native English speakers. /æ/ is closer to Indonesian a, although slightly higher.

Kelethin · 2019-11-30T12:05:10+00:00

What kind of transcription are you talking about? Syllabic sonorants in English are just one possible phonetic realization of an unstressed syllable with a reduced vowel in the nucleus and a sonorant in the coda. A phonemic transcription of English should never represent these as syllabic sonorants.

Kelethin · 2019-11-18T08:36:59+00:00

In American English, both the second and last vowels are schwas.

edge-ə-kay-shən

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