Outstanding. I've been waiting for an Atlantis Topic to be posted to ask an unrelated question. Thera was originally called Caliste. The Eruption was 1628BC via carbon-dating. Nevermind this article.
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Anyone speak Egyptian? I'm looking for comments on a statement from an old friend.

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"Egyptian the hundreds (100) and the thousands (1000) were pronounced of very similar way, with as soon as one differentiates in a vowel."
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"1. The Egyptian language has been one of the most preservative languages of all those that exist. Egyptologists has been able to demonstrate as during thousand of years they they did not change the form to write its words, of this has been deduced that their words also would be pronounced equal during thousands of years without hardly changes, because the writing acts that as indeed, that is, the one to fix the language. In the Copto, that is the last evolution of the Egyptian language, the pronunciación of both units (hundreds and thousands) is so similar that as soon as there is difference among them by a simple vowel. And like the Egyptian language was very preservative, is highly probable that this pronunciation existed from the Old Empire. Later we will see proofs in the hieroglyphic writing.

2. In the Egyptian Coptic pronunciation, the units of hundreds (100)] is pronounced like še (she), and the units of thousands (1000) pronounce like ša (sha); also the forms were used šu (shu) for the hundreds (100), and šo (sho) for the thousands (1000). This way we have it number 900 pronounces in coptic like psis-ên-še or psis-ên-šu, whereas 9000 is pronounced like psis-ên-ša or psis-ên-šo.

3. In the Egyptian, according to the conventional transliteration that does egyptologists, would be something as well as psdj.t-n-š.t (900 years) and psdj.t-n-ḫȝ (9000 years). It watches this photo with a comparative table that I did years ago.

4. The Egyptologists has decided to transcribe the word for the units of hundreds (100) like š.t. All egyptologists affirms that - final .t was not pronounced, then we only have one š that must have a vowel, reason why could be just as the pronunciación coptic of še (she). On the other hand, the word for the units of thousands (1000) egyptologists transcribes like ḫȝ, but all the specialists in Egyptian Philology accept that the sound of ḫ or x, was equivalent or very similar to the sound of š. The main proof is that most of the words that present the sound š, also they were written with variants of the Egyptian letter that reproduced the sound of ḫ or x, and whose sound is approximately like German sch. Therefore in coptic 100 transcribes herself as še (she, or sche) and 1000 are transcribed like šo (sho, or scho).

5. If the language used in the conversation between Solón and the priests of Sáis were the Egyptian (and everything it seems to indicate that it was east language and not the Greek), then she existed a high probability that the Egyptian words used to denominate to the units of hundreds (100), and to the units of thousands (1000) could be confused by any listener, confusion that would be more probable for a foreign listener like Solón, that even though knew to speak in Egyptian, we do not know surely to what extent arrived its knowledge from the Egyptian language, but in any case, so it would not be advanced.

6. On the other hand, the words were so similar that between same Egyptian it could even produce error, in an oral transmission, since in a written transmission the error could not happen, because in the writing they were completely different.

The peculiar thing, is that if we accepted these possible errors between the hundreds (100) and the thousands (1000), we found then explanation to all the contradictions that I have found in the Critias when numbers for the distances are used, and that we have discussed in other Topics." -- George



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