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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.

Foreword
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.20.00
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1 Introduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.20.01
5-6
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2 Methodological problems in previous models
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7-10
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3 Group writing – A new approach
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.20.03
11-17
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4 Group writing – A new model
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.20.04
19-30
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5 Group writing – Data and analyses
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31-42
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6 Egyptian *i/*u and *i:/*u: in light of the Semitic evidence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.20.06
43-46
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7 Synchronic analysis
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47-50
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8 Diachronic analysis
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51-57
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9 Statistical analysis
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59-63
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10 The development of Coptic
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11 The group ​𓂧𓏭 – additional observations
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67-70
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12 The group ​𓇋​𓏲
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71-93
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13 The case of ym - ⲉⲓⲟⲙ
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95-97
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14 Conclusions
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99-100
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References
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101-104
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Appendix A
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105-136
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Appendix B
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137-140
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Index of Egyptian words mentioned in the text
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141-146
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Index of groups appearing in the corpus, including variants (Appendix A)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/studmon.20.19
147-149
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