Ancient Egyptian Tongue
Egyptian, a tongue heard before the days of the pyramids, but unspoken for tho last 900 years, is giving up' the secrets of sounds-familiar to Tutankhamen, Moses and Cleopatra through research into Coptic, documents. Professor AYilliam H. Worrell, in tho institute of archaeological research at the University of Michigan, is making tho study.
Scholars have been able to translate the stone and payrus writings, but heretofore liavo been no more than able to guass at tho sounds of the characters. Professor Worrell uses the science of phonetics, which tells what sounds may be formed in tho human mouth and throat, and studies the dialects of Coptic, Arabic and Greek. By starting with sounds used to-day in related languages, and observing spelling variations, he hopes to trace individual sounds back to the forms silent for centuries.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7243, 24 August 1933, Page 8
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138Ancient Egyptian Tongue Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7243, 24 August 1933, Page 8
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