correct!

Certain epichoric Greek alphabets wrote ξ (x) as 𐌇𐌔 (hs). Pinyin vs. Wades-Giles has been going on far longer than anyone could’ve imagined.

proposal in question: brill.com/view/journal...

What we really need is a good Indological transcription system for Middle Chinese. Hill’s proposal is a step in the right direction, but still not quite right. Every government in the world should have agencies working round the clock on this.

New video series by yours truly on Biblical and Semiticist stuff – "banal [within the field], yet awesome" facts and opinions. First episode out now, on whether Greek or Hebrew is harder for beginners:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4726...

love this script

ⲧϩⲟⲧⲉ ⲇⲉ ⲡⲣⲉϥⲙⲟⲩⲟⲩⲧ ⲙⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲧⲉ

ooh, will definitely be doing this

just got nasal ʿayin jumpscared by a 17th century dictionary of Vietnamese

anyone ever point out that Αἰθίοπες appears to be a translation of 𒊕𒈪𒂵/ṣalmāt-qaqqadim (Sumerian autonym)?

an Egyptian source makes about zero sense here, idk what in the world Erman, Albright, and Lambdin were cooking with that 🤦

I know Phoenician isn’t one for matres lectionis, so I’d imagine this has to be read as a consonantal /ʔ/? 

Also interesting to note that Pûlu (Babylonian name of Tiglath-Pileser III) is likewise spelled pʾl in the Phoenician section of the İncirli Stele (against Biblical פּוּל). Hmm...

Anyone know what’s up with with the aleph in Phoenician pʾl ‘(Egyptian) beans’ in KAI 51 Vs. 4? No parallel in the Semitic cognates (Heb. פּוֹל, Aram. פּוֹלָא, Ar. فُول, Ge. ፉል, etc.), but it does look suspiciously like Bohairic ⲫⲉⲗ ‘bean’, which would go back to Proto-Coptic *pʰɛʔl.

I was having trouble reconciling the Tiberian form with Ugaritic a͗byn, but apparently *a > ɛ is regular in this position. Thanks Garr! (from “The Seghol and Segholation in Hebrew”)

was finally able to complete this etymology tree