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James Hoch (1990) confirmed: Byblos signs and the Egyptian consonant signs (GEAS news, 1 March 2021)
Michael Mäder, Elisabeth Schmutz, 2021.
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Preliminary result: eight of the twelve most frequent Byblos sign types have a graphical Levenshtein distance below 2 from an Egyptian uniconsonantal sign, taken as support for Hoch's derivation. Preliminary and not peer-reviewed.
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Michael Mäder, & Elisabeth Schmutz (2021). James Hoch (1990) confirmed: Byblos signs and the Egyptian consonant signs (GEAS news, 1 March 2021). https://center-for-decipherment.ch/news/2021-03-01-james-hoch-1990-confirmed/
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and . “James Hoch (1990) confirmed: Byblos signs and the Egyptian consonant signs (GEAS news, 1 March 2021).” 2021.