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These are the following reconstructed pronounciations of term dwꜣt (duat) in several stages of Ancient Egyptian (using IPA):

/ˈtʼuwlat/ - Old Egyptian

/ˈtʼuwlaʔ/ - Middle Egyptian

/ˈtʼuːʔəʔ/ - Neo-Middle Egyptian

/tʼeːʔ/ - Late Egyptian

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You can say it any way you like - we can never know how ancient Egyptian words were pronounced, since hieroglyphs did not record any vowels.

The word is written with signs that spell dwAt, where the A represents aleph (a glottal stop or '), so the consonants are d+w+'+t. Without knowing what vowels should be included we can not hope to say the word correctly, so you could say doo-at, or dwat, or doo-wat, or da-wa-'at or anything else - they are all equally incorrect, as are all attempts to pronounce ancient Egyptian words.

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"Hieroglyphs only recorded consonants, so we may never know how Ancient Egyptian words were pronounced, blah-blah-blah-yada-yada". Come on, stop spreading this stupid myth, vowels can be safely reconstructed through many methods.

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