determinatives are for disambiguiating words and clarity. everything is phonetically spelled minus some vowels (usually assumed to be 'e'). sounds can be overs

determinatives are for disambiguiating words and clarity. everything is phonetically spelled minus some vowels (usually assumed to be 'e'). sounds can be overspecified for clarity. some of the symbols have multiple consonants. here is something short i made whilst working toward automatic transcription, transliteration and translation https://imgur.com/a/KjkYKZS https://imgur.com/a/KjkYKZS 4 of the glyphs here are silent, despite having phonetic values (or you could look at it as different glyphs being silent...) interesting point about the penis glyphs is that Google Noto font project has purposefully decided to leave it as tofu, so much for "no more tofu". Microsoft have done the same with their Segoe font...