Amelia Wrote:
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> A student sent me an email asking if i would help
> them with a message his girlfriend had sent him. I
> haven't ever tried to decipher anything with out
> hieroglyphs, here is what he sent me:
> "ye ya nak ya ma na sun nu"
>
> Can i get some help on deciphering this, (he
> said that she told him it was ancient egyptian)
> and give me some hints on how to even start to
> 'tackle' a task like this where the hieroglyphs
> aren't available. Please and thank you
>

Without the glyphs or proper Manuel de Codage transliteration, this phrase most likely can't be translated; sorry.

This phrase looks, at the BEST, like Budge (and I can't even get a handle on that on a good day, it's just nonsensical after awhile). I'm betting it could be some New Age transliteration (or someone has watched The Mummy movies way too often ).

If I'm right, good luck: only New Agers can translate that transcription.

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg

Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom