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In addition, it's well known from Egyptian hieroglyphic that tsamekh was
nearly doubtless an affricate [ts] (S p r scribe => t_ p r and not **s p r
as is expected)
I would disagree about samekh being "nearly doubtless" [ts], certainly
not on the basis of Egyptian transcriptions, seeing that Egyptian
phonology is quite uncertain. (That Egyptian /t_/ indicated an affricate
seems quite unlikely considering its development in Coptic.)
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