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Glossing Ancient Languages

Glossing of Heinrich Brugsch (1855)

This is an open access forum on recommendations for the Interlinar Morphemic Glossing (IMG) of ancient languages.

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General recommendations

• General glossing rules and recommendations (alignment, punctuation)
• Recommended glossing abbreviations

Glossing of Jean François Champollion (1836-1841)

Modern glossing of same passage

Specific recommendations for different languages

• Glossing Akkadian: Form examples and hints.
• Ancient Egyptian
  • Glossing Earlier Egyptian (Old Egyptian/Middle Egyptian): Form examples and hints.
  • Glossing Late Egyptian: Form examples (in preparation) and hints.
  • Glossing Demotic: Form examples (Please contribute) and hints.
  • Glossing Coptic: Form examples (in preparation) and hints.
• Glossing Ancient Greek: Form examples (in preparation) and hints.
• Glossing Hittite: Form examples and hints.

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Technical issues

• Unicode fonts and editing
• Editing of aligned text examples

Examples

(Please contribute)

• Examples of glossed Akkadian texts
• Examples of glossed Ancient Egyptian texts
• Examples of glossed Ancient Greek texts
• Examples of glossed Hittite texts

If one of the following signs does not seem to be displayed correctly on your computer, please install a powerful Unicode font like Charis SIL or New Athena Unicode: ḫ, š, ṭ, ʿ, (for Egyptian:) Ꜣ, ḥ, ẖ, ṯ, ḏ.