Coptic

A list of Old Testament books.
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Though not all Biblical books survive in Coptic, their names do. I don’t remember the exact source, but this is from a late Cairo Ms dated ca. 18th-20th century. https://t.co/igZtwtF299

It feels like re-inventing the wheel 🛞

Anyhow, do you agree on my sequence of successive steps to trace the alphabet for children (although I have a feeling grown-ups will use it too)? That Ni/Nu does look ugly/unsettlingly similar to Mi/Mu.

Maybe our Greek friends can help.. https://t.co/xzf2vFjLYV

Neo-Coptic text [foreword] dated 1935 by a team of ethnic Coptic experts. There are a few silly typos in here by the copier (2022), but it’s passable.

Who can translate? https://t.co/BmNR33dBqi

Selected vocabulary for beginners
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Each entry includes at least one identifier (whether the part of speech and or additional information) https://t.co/rPkBi3kv1k

EXTREMELY rare ligature! I have only seen this in very few late Bohairic manuscripts, the CHI-MU-RHO Ⲭ︦Ⲙ︦Ⲣ︦ (χρόνος μαρτύρων “era of the martyrs”) abbreviation as a ligature, it combines the two common ligatures ⳩⳥ into one.

I need this in Unicode, please. 🙏 https://t.co/e6VkcOqKIk

THOTH 1.0 was released a year ago. THOTH 2.0 was officially announced yesterday pending official release soon, accompanied by its own polished landing page/interface.

As of right now, THOTH is the best AI for Coptic linguistic prompts.

Old page is still accessible in OG post. https://t.co/cAJm95KrQ5

The first ever Open Access Coptic grammar: Manley’s Sahidic textbook now available at https://t.co/EmfHL2npzA https://t.co/z80OReGPgD

Have you seen the Coptic handwriting of Fr. Matthew the Poor of the Monastery of St. Macarius before?

Well, now you have. It’s not original, he’s copying from a manuscript.

Spot 5 spelling mistakes in this excerpt. Here is one: ⲠⲒⲈⲦϪⲰⲔ -> ⲪⲎ ⲈⲦϪⲎⲔ/ⲠⲈⲦϪⲰⲔ https://t.co/SOZXqABdGo

ⲐⲎ ⲈⲦⲀⲤⲘⲒⲤⲒ ⲚⲀⲚ ⲘⲪ︦Ϯ︦

First time I see the combined holy letters ⲪϮ with the Ⲫ in half like this.

For reference, the base Ⲫ is usually extended upwards, see two sample below.

I needed this in Unicode. https://t.co/9FxUrqT4KZ

هي كتب الأنبا ديمتريوس ليه مش مشهورة؟ سيدنا تاعب نفسه بيكتب في الكتب من السبعينات والإقبال مفيش. برة ملوي، ممكن الناس أصلا متكونش سمعت عن سيدنا ولا كتباته https://t.co/dcr4Pqv0wZ

Ⲫ^Ⲡ
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A lovely example of Late Bohairic pronunciation.

Liturgical Ms. dated A.D. 1626. Copyist did not include/introduce all late arabian jinkims (1x Ϩ̇ⲘⲞⲦ 2x ϨⲘⲞⲦ) https://t.co/QPhpBmp4eQ

You’re probably used to seeing Bohairic-arabic in two-columns formatting.
Before that it was Sahidic-Greek and Achmimic-Greek.

Fragment below of Acts 3, from Moscow, edited by Elanskaya 1994. https://t.co/TvlHAnMHoY

A lovely orthography of the infamous Bohairic Khai, almost representing the English letter ((y 𝔂))

… ϢⲰⲠⲒ ⲚⳲⲢⲎⲒ̈ ⳲⲈⲚ …

This astonishing codex is a testament of an early 4th century Bohairic variety dubbed B74. It’s currently being edited by Nathalie Bosson. https://t.co/0KOxkD0EHz