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"Angus B. Grieve-Smith" Date: Wed Feb 10, 1999 10:34 pm Subject: Re: Egyptian Sign Language | ||||||||||||
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On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Harry Blackmore wrote: > Perhaps Dr Esam may be able to tell us if there are references to > deafness or deaf people in the hieroglyph writings of ancient times in > his country - earliest form of 'signwriting', eh! :-) I sat in on a few classes in Middle Egyptian when I was an undergrad, and didn't notice any references to deafness. You realize that Egyptian hieroglyphics were an alphabetic system, similar to Roman, and not very different from the real SignWriting. -Angus B. Grieve-Smith Linguistics Department The University of New Mexico | ||||||||||||
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