Vocalization in Group Writing : : a new proposal / / Marwan Kilani.

• VerfasserIn: Kilani, Marwan,
• Place / Publishing House: Hamburg : : Widmaier Verlag,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The so-called group writing or syllabic orthography is a special orthography used in Egyptian hieroglyphic texts starting from the New Kingdom/Late Bronze Age. The nature and function of this orthography, especially the way it notates vowels, has been a topic of debate for more than a century, without any consensus being reached. In this book, Marwan Kilani presents a new interpretative model that provides a fresh explanation of how the syllabic orthography notates vowels. The author starts from a critical reanalysis of previous suggestions and from a thorough reassessment of the evidence. He then infers the functioning of the system by comparing the group writing spelling of Late Egyptian words surviving in Coptic with the reconstructions of their vocalizations. This approach leads to the recognition of a system that not only coherently explains all the spellings attested in the corpus, but which also produces interpretations of the spellings in group writing that agree with current reconstructions of the Egyptian vocalization. The book contains indexes and an Appendix listing the words analysed in the study.

Table of Contents

Foreword . 1 -- ℗ʹ1 Introduction . 5 -- ℗ʹ2 Methodological problems in previous models 7 -- ℗ʹ3 Group writing - A new approach 11 -- ℗ʹ3.1 Defi nition of the corpus . 11 -- ℗ʹ3.2 The nature of the system . 14 -- ℗ʹ3.3 The number of vowels 16 -- ℗ʹ4 Group writing - A new model . 19 -- ℗ʹ4.1 Defi nition of the interpretative model . 19 -- ℗ʹ4.2 The sign ̧"Ư 22 -- ℗ʹ4.3 ̧"Ư̧",‹̧"Þ = rC / r# and ̧"˜-̧"Æ = nC / n# 23 -- ℗ʹ4.4 ̧" in fi nal position 27 -- ℗ʹ4.5 Special readings for two groups 27 -- ℗ʹ4.5.1 k̊œØ and the development of /a/ in proximity of /k/ 27 -- ℗ʹ4.5.2 ̧",ʹ̧"Ư = dÊı 29 -- ℗ʹ5 Group writing - Data and analyses . 31 -- ℗ʹ5.1 Period 1 . 31 -- ℗ʹ5.2 Period 2 . 34 -- ℗ʹ5.3 Period 3 . 40 -- ℗ʹ6 Egyptian *i/*u and *i:/*u: in light of the Semitic evidence 43 -- ℗ʹ7 Synchronic analysis 47 -- ℗ʹ8 Diachronic analysis . 51 -- ℗ʹ9 Statistical analysis . 59 -- ℗ʹ9.1 Theoretical background 59 -- ℗ʹ9.2 Results . 62 -- ℗ʹ10 The development of Coptic ǿ 65 -- ℗ʹ11 The group ̧",ʹ̧"Ư - additional observations 67 -- ℗ʹ12 The group ̧"‡‹̧"ø . 71 -- ℗ʹ12.1 The group ̧"‡‹̧"ø - interpretation . 71 -- ℗ʹ12.2 The group ̧"‡‹̧"ø - Attestations in the Onomasticon of Amenope . 75 -- ℗ʹ12.3 Words in construct state - Some observations 92 -- ℗ʹ13 The case of ym - ǿœǿ"ǿŸǿ™ 95 -- ℗ʹ14 Conclusions . 99 -- References . 101 -- Appendix A . 105 -- Abbreviations 105 -- vi Contents Attestations . 109 -- Period 1 . 109 -- Period 2 . 116 -- Period 3 . 130 -- Appendix B . 137 -- Index of Egyptian words mentioned in the text 141 -- Index of groups appearing in the corpus, including variants (Appendix A) . 147.