Did Ancient Egyptian sound like this?

Tut   Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:48 am GMT
As we all know now Ancient Egyptian is part of the Afro-Asiatic language and is often compared with the Cushitic langauges which Somali is part of (in fact the ancient Egyptians called the Land of Punt which is Somalia "Te-netru" or their place of origin).

Here are some similarities of vocabulary

Ancient Egyptian/Modern Somali (meaning)

Ra/Ra (The sun)

Neter/Neder (divine being)

Hipo/Hibo (gift)

Heru/Huur (a stork)

Tuf/Tuf (spit)

Habi/Wabi ( a river)

Ar/Ar ( a lion)

cb/kab (shoe)

brq/biriq (lightning)

ayah/dayah (moon)

dab/dab (fire)

anka/aniga (I)

su, asu/usi (he)

Ka/Ka,Kaah (spirit)

medu/muud (liquid)

Is it fair to say ancient Egyptian would sound something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1308uZ_H68
king   Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:31 am GMT
No, it's not fair to say that. No matter how closely related they are, that says nothing about phonetics. The difference in sound could be as great as Spanish from French, for example. Not to mention that the changed wrought by time will be massive too. I doubt French sounds much like Latin sounded.
kjiuo   Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:52 am GMT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1308uZ_H68


Nice language, it sounds a bit like Arabic
Goa'uld   Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:25 am GMT
This should be the closest living relative of Ancient Egyptian:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKcdXNo8sg
Sjarel Gulden   Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:12 pm GMT
Coptic is a dead language, but it's still used liturgically.
Kamp   Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:01 am GMT
Nice language, very distinct