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Did Egyptians say aye or yes?

Updated: 12/10/2022
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They said neither, since both aye and yes are English words.

The ancient Egyptian word for "yes" or "affirmative" is written tiw in hieroglyphs, where the i is a consonant that does not exist in English. Since vowel sounds were not written we can never know how this was pronounced.

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