# Michael Mäder 2021: James Hoch (1990) confirmed: Byblos signs and the Egyptian consonant signs (GEAS news, 1 March 2021)

> Michael Mäder, Elisabeth Schmutz, 2021. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Preliminary result: eight of the twelve most frequent Byblos sign…

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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.

**Byblos syllabary** Webpage0

## What it's used for here

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 Preliminary and not peer-reviewed.

## Cited by on this site 2 records

[Eight of the twelve most frequent Byblos sign types lie within a small graphical distance of an Egyptian…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVN022MA5/eight-of-the-twelve-most-frequent-byblos-sign-types-lie)

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[The Byblos syllabary](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

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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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