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Type transliteration

Egyptologists type with an ordinary keyboard using the Manuel de Codage (MdC), a standard worked out in the 1980s: A for ꜣ, H for ḥ, x for ḫ and so on. Type in either box; the other one follows. Then copy.

Write yod as
Write q as

Reading it

The typing table

Capital letters matter only for A H x X S T D (and a versus A): h is plain h and H is ḥ. Everything else passes through as typed, including the separators Egyptologists use: . before an ending (sḏm.n), = before a suffix pronoun (pr=f) and - inside compounds.

Some typists write 3 for ꜣ and ` for ꜥ; switch that on here:

The answer boxes in the Middle Egyptian courses accept MdC typing directly. Learn it in the lesson Typing Transliteration. Source: Wikipedia, Manuel de Codage and Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian.

Signs and readings: Gardiner codes, categories, sound values and meanings follow Sir Alan Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar (Oxford, 1927; 3rd ed. 1957), its Introduction and Sign List (the 1927 edition is on the Internet Archive), checked against Wikipedia’s articles Gardiner’s sign list, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian. Transliteration writes yod as j, as in J. P. Allen’s Middle Egyptian; the typing forms are the Manuel de Codage’s.

The hieroglyph font: TRB Hieroglyphs, drawn sign by sign for Teddy Rook Book and released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. It has the signs used on this site, at their Unicode code points (Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, Unicode 5.2), so text you copy stays real Unicode. Transliteration letters missing from your fonts come from a subset of GNU FreeFont’s FreeSerif.

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