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Glossing Ancient Languages and Texts
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General recommendations
- General glossing rules and recommendations (alignment, punctuation)
- Recommended glossing abbreviations
Specific recommendations for different languages
- Akkadian
- Ancient Egyptian
- Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian (Old/Middle/Late Egyptian, Demotic)
- Coptic (Please contribute)
- Ancient Greek (Please contribute)
- Hittite
Technical issues
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ḫ, š, ṭ, ʿ, (for Egyptian:) Ꜣ, ḥ, ẖ, ṯ, ḏ.