Oct 10, 2026, 3:12 PM«For Greek Unification to be truly Greek, it must include unifying the Cyrillic 'ш' and Egyptian '𓆷' and perhaps also Hebrew 'ש' Backwards compatibility!»
This must be sarcasm about getting the sound of Ш (or Ж or Ч) into Greek phonetics.
@vnikolov Well, sort of.
The corresponding Coptic letter is Ϣ. As you know, most Coptic letters come from Greek, but this one is one of the few that comes from Demotic Egyptian, specifically because Greek doesn't have the corresponding sound, and I suppose the loose reinterpretation technique that Greeks had used when Greek letters were still being actively invented, most significantly, to make a couple of Phoenician consonants into Greek vowels, had gone out of fashion.
@ZDL @dancingtreefrog timtfj@mastodon.social
Oct 11, 2026, 12:31 PMRight.
I think the differences in phonetics jumped to my mind so fast that they shadowed the point about the connection between the origins of Cyrillic, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Phoenician writing.
This is a simplified list in alphabetical order; chronological order would be better (with Cyrillic last), but I am not sure how to order then the variants of Greek writing versus Hebrew writing.