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Glossing Ancient Languages and Texts

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, interpuctuation)
• Recommended glossing abbreviations

Specific recommendations for different languages

• Akkadian
• Ancient Egyptian
• Ancient Greek
• Hittite

Technical issues

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• Editing of aligned text examples