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Antea wrote:I am also watching this (from Egyptian Arabic dialect to Coptic)
księżycowy wrote:I think we've picked Introduction to Sahidic Coptic by Lambdin. Keyword think.
vijayjohn wrote:And I learned that there are efforts to revive the Coptic language inside the church, but also that there is an entire political party in Egypt called the Liberal Egyptian Party whose goals include the revival of the Egyptian language and/or Coptic and recognizing Egyptian Arabic (instead of Modern Standard Arabic) as the official language of Egypt.
księżycowy wrote:Ok, how about the Introduction (pages vii-xvii) by either next week (11/25) or the week after (12/2)?
EDIT: I wouldn't mind bi-weekly check-ins, rather than weekly, myself.
Antea wrote:I already know the Coptic alphabet, it’s like the Greek but with some more letters more (but usually there are no fonts).
dEhiN wrote:The revival efforts are, from what I remember reading, based on another dialect of Coptic than what we will be studying.
Also, that political party apparently dissolved in 2011 and merged with another party to form a third party. I didn't look into the ideal of the newly-formed party, though.
vijayjohn wrote:I'm having the darnedest time trying to wrap my head around the alphabet for some weird reason.
EDIT: OK, I'm reading the part about the alphabet in the book after having tried to read about it on Wikipedia, and now, it's not so weird anymore. I think I just needed a bit of time to get over some of the Coptic-specific characters (including some of the Greek-derived ones!).
dEhiN wrote:vijayjohn wrote:I'm having the darnedest time trying to wrap my head around the alphabet for some weird reason.
EDIT: OK, I'm reading the part about the alphabet in the book after having tried to read about it on Wikipedia, and now, it's not so weird anymore. I think I just needed a bit of time to get over some of the Coptic-specific characters (including some of the Greek-derived ones!).
So would you recommend I check out about the Coptic alphabet on Wikipedia first, and then try the book?
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