Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 15:11:16 EDT


Michael:

>> >1. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL YOD
>>>LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL YOD
>>>2. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL AYIN
>>>LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL AYIN
>>>
>>>I strongly suspect that current diacritics (for 1) and modifier letters
(for
>>>2) are similar enough in shape to what is required that they can be
used.
>>>Are there any other characters used by Egyptologist that are so close
in
>>shape to i?? and ?? or ?? that they cannot be used?
>
>I don't know what i?? and ?? or ?? were meant to be, Mark.

Mark has since responded with this made clear. I'm interested in knowing
what your response to him would be.

- Peter

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