 Old Nubian language: Encyclopedia II - Old Nubian language - WritingOld Nubian is written with an uncial variety of the Greek alphabet, extended with 3 Coptic letters - ϣ "sh", ϩ "h", and ϭ "j"- and 3 unique to Nubian, apparently derived from Meroitic: ng, ny, and w (not included in Unicode.) Each letter could have a line drawn above it, when it was:
a vowel which formed a syllable by itself, or was preceded by one of l, n, r, or j;
a consonant with an i (sometimes unwritten) preceding it.
The sound /i/ could be written ε,̄ ει, η, ι, or υ; /u/ was normally written ου. In diphthongs, a dieresis was so ...
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