It's worse than that. Ancient Egyptian only wrote consonants. Those are the "Egyptological" transliterations, which converts consonants to vowels and then ins

It's worse than that. Ancient Egyptian only wrote consonants. Those are the "Egyptological" transliterations, which converts consonants to vowels and then inserts extra vowels to make them pronounceable to the (mostly British at the time) Egyptologists. The actual written names are "tꜣ-stj" and "nḥsj". That is, /tʔ stj/ and /nħsj/. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language#Egyptological_pronunciation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language#Egyptologica...