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In the ancient Egyptian language, you would have to say "ten-two times", which looks like this when transliterated into English letters:

m.dj.w s.n.w.y s.p

Since hieroglyphs did not record vowels (I have included full stops to indicate where the vowels fit), we can only guess at how these words were said. One version might be:

mu:dyaw si'neway sep

Without a time machine to take us back a few thousand years it is impossible to know exactly how the ancient Egyptian language was spoken - we can read it today, but not speak it.

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