Do we have any idea as to what Ancient Egyptian might have sounded like? And if so, how?
>>1237411
we can read ancient hieroglyphics
>>1237438
But how? How do we know the pronunciation and the accent?
Did they write it down somewhere in hieroglyphics and then, with the information we get from the Rosetta stone or something, translate their instructions?
>>1237438
They tend to be missing vowels, and the rosetta stone wasn't exactly phonetic.
...also seems that the idea that spinning pottery can capture sounds was a bit bogus.
We do know that some words in living languages have Kemet roots, however, and we can infer some pronunciation from those words.
>>1237411
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrUTKYbe5T0
knock yourself out
>>1237411
I've read that some Amer-Indian tribes used to make "talking sticks", by making very tiny grooves along the side of some hard wood, and running a thin piece of wood along the stick, they could make the stick "say" a single word or phrase. Seems some tribes can still make these, and sell them as trinkets.
Makes me wonder if any other ancient cultures with dead languages may have picked up the same trick. Granted, for one to survive from ancient Egypt, it'd have to be made of gold - but a sacred talking stick made of gold sounds right up Egypt's ally.
>>1237454
But yeah, I also recall hearing old Coptic is thought to be pretty close.
>>1237444
>But how? How do we know the pronunciation and the accent?
We can figure it out to a degree, but ancient Egypt lasted 3000 years, the pronunciation would have changed a lot over that period even if the religious institutions kept the language the same.
>>1237411
Like ebonics
>>1237472
>by making very tiny grooves along the side of some hard wood, and running a thin piece of wood along the stick, they could make the stick "say" a single word or phrase.
Isn't that kind of how a record works?
>>1239172
Yep
>>1237411
like a mix between miscellaneous semitic and finnish
>>1239993
Does that mean Korean is a Semitic language?
>>1240081
Considering that Jesus was Korean, yes.
