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We know how it was written, but not how it was said.

In the ancient Egyptian language the word "yes" appears in hieroglyphs as tiw (where the i is not a vowel but a guttural consonant not found in English). We can never know how Egyptian words were pronounced, since vowels sounds were not written - although the Egyptians obviously knew what vowels to say.

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