: how do researchers find the sound of dead languages with just the written text without ever hearing it.
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No one’s said this but I’m many cases we can’t. Egyptian hieroglyphs and demotic didn’t record vowels, so the vowel sounds of ancient egyptian words/names are largely guesses. Famously, the name of God is only recorded as YHWH in the Torah, leaving us to guess *Yahweh* or *Jehovah* or others.
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