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A Beginner’s Introduction To Medew Netcher This is an excerpt from an upcoming book called “A Beginner’s Introduction To Medew Netcher - The Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic System” by Wudjau Men-Ib Iry Maat. In print in February 2015. Visit the website www.mdw-ntr.com for more information, tools, and resources on Medew Netcher. § 4.2 Monoliteral Phonograms Middle Ranyakemet (language of Kemet) had twenty-five 1 consonants whose orthography, sound value, and recognition must be learned without exception. An orthography is a standardized system for using a particular writing system (script) to write a particular language. It includes rules of spelling, and may also concern other elements of the written language such as punctuation and capitalization. Each consonant could be represented in Sesh Medew Netcher by a single sign; such signs are called monoliteral (“one-letter”) hieroglyphs. In effect, these monoliteral signs constituted a Kemety “alphabet.” On their 1 Sometimes listed as 24 due to the exclusion of the doubling of the M17 “flowering reed” for the /y/.
A Beginner’s Introduction To Medew Netcher own, these alphabetical signs would have been adequate for writing down any word combination but they were never used as such by the Remetch, only in combination with other signs. Once you have memorized the alphabetic signs and their transliterations, you will have all of the known sounds in the language and you will know all of the special characters needed to transliterate inscriptions.
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