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F π f π Ζ π python ππ» pattar feather π
π PU πΊ pa π PA π pa male
The letters representing βfβ were prone to corruption, and have caused much scholarly confusion and frustration for various reasons:
It was lost in translation in languages which donβt posses the phonological equivalent of f.
It is similar to f β v β wh β ph and other variants in other languages, some pronunciations unfamiliar to English.
Especially π was also associated with forbidden taboos and temporarily erased from hieroglyph inscriptions.
In demotic times scribes went wild in the character.
One clear shift in the reading of the Sanskrit Alphabet is the dangling i which was originally just an ordinary fi and its inverse which was a similar fi
ordinary fi : ΰ€ͺΰ€Ώ ο¬i
Both ΰ€ͺΰ€Ώ And ΰ€ͺΰ₯ should be transcribed as fi and fi, namely fphi and phfi or fi+p and p+fi,
similar to the ph in physics or German Pferd.
There was a global shift from va to a in all alphabets:
Latin atta, Ancient Greek αΌΟΟΞ± (Γ‘tta), Gothic π°πππ° (atta), Old Church Slavonic ΠΎΡΡΡΡ (otΔcΔ).
πππ father (not : attav)
It is not that π°πππ° was orignially pronounced 'atta', it is that the strange orthographic convention
alpha = al'PHA β V at beginning of words was lost/discarded!
One needs to be careful reading old scripts in similar alphabets with our modern pronounciation!
Other orthographic conventions / lost components were ggβng i<r epsilon<s aaβva/ma
NO SUCH CUNEIFORM