• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    9 hours ago

    EDIT: Daggit, I was thinking of Moses, not Noah. You can scratch the below!

    His primary language would have been Ancient Egyptian, alongside early Semitic.

    Doing a little digging, my understanding is that Ancient Egyptians described things in practical terms. The more foreign something was, the more they would describe it in known terms. So a zebra would be something like “striped wild ass.”

    𓉻𓂸𓃘 𓈇𓏏𓈉 𓋴𓄿𓃥

    • KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz
      3·
      9 hours ago

      Amazing. So then the question remains if the Egyptians had an order of hieroglyphics, and if so, whetherthe symbol 𓉻 is at the beginning or the end.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Ah, WHOOPS, I just realised something. I was thinking of Moses, not Noah! 🤥

        And I was rolling with Moses because he’s at least a legendary or composite figure, and Ancient Egyptian is a fun subject IMO.

        Noah is just pure mythical fabrication AFAIK, so who knows what imaginary language he allegedly spoke? (altho hypothetically I’d guess it would be pre-Semitic)

        Interestingly, the Christian mythos is hardly the only one to feature a Great Flood.

    • m_‮f@discuss.onlineOP
      4·
      21 hours ago

      In case that doesn’t render for anyone else, here’s a handy site:

      https://babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html

      U+1327B : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH O029 {A wooden column, written horizontally}
U+130B8 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH D052 {A phallus with a scrotum}
U+130D8 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH E007 {A donkey/ass, standing}
U+0020 : SPACE [SP]
U+13207 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH N023 {An irrigation canal}
U+133CF : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH X001 {A half round loaf of bread}
U+13209 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH N025 {The hill country over the edge of the cultivated areas}
U+0020 : SPACE [SP]
U+132F4 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH S029 {A folded piece of cloth}
U+1313F : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH G001 {An Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus)}
U+130E5 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH E017 {A jackal, standing, tail down}