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Akerblad also correctly assigned phonetic values to a few of the signs.
He also believed, again correctly, that the signs recorded phonetic values.
By comparison of one sign with another, he was able to determine the phonetic values of the hieroglyphics.
The approximate phonetic values of most syllabic signs used in Linear A are known from Linear B, but the language written in Linear A remains unknown.
It is our task to find out what the language was, or what the phonetic values of the signs were, and so remove one of the unknowns".
About 1930 he turned to the determination of the phonetic values of Hittite hieroglyphics and the general structure of the language.
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I knew the phonetic value of each letter: "ah," "nn," "duh".
An example is the phonetic value of /k/ for the letters c, k, and q.
In his view the phonetic value of the hieroglyphs was merely the commonplace, superficial part of the sign.
Eventually, certain Chinese characters were used for their phonetic value to represent Korean particles of speech and inflectional endings.
The Cyrillic alphabet was based on medieval Greek, in which the phonetic value of B had become v.
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