I find some phonetic values of Greco Roman cartouches were determined from Latin, not Egyptian, so for instance [hill] collis /k/, [lion] leo /l/, [hand] trado /t/, [water] nauticus /n/. Notice in Coptic water is mo or moou corresponding to /m/, also the symbol matches Hebrew M closely and Hebrew "water" is mym, Arabic ma. Also there are many patterns in Ancient Hebrew which match Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. Only a few phonetic values have been gotten correct, not enough to decipher anything.
Has Egyptian really been deciphered. I posted a related question in 'History' asking about the origin of Hebrew, is it from Old Aramaic, Canaanite or Egyptian. For more information see yahoo group peripheralegyptology or historicallinguistics.
2006-06-18
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