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When my demonic form is trapped and contained in a book by a 3rd century Alexandrian magician

The Coptic church: we absolutely do not celebrate Halloween.

Also the Coptic church: I know the perfect gospel reading for vespers on October 31st.

type shit

Maybe it's time for Egyptian-Coptic Group 2.0 - Bluesky Edition.

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apparently the epagomenal days are the five extra days which leap years get in the Egyptian, Coptic and Ethiopian calendars. they’re called النسي in-nasy ‘the delay’ in Egyptian Arabic, and ጳጕሜን ṗāgʷmen in Gəʕəz (← ἐπαγόμεναι)

How close is Egyptian to Semitic?

#Coptic ⲖⲀⲀⲨ "nothing" might preserve the same long vowel as the Proto-Semitic active participle.

It also might be 12th/13th Dynasty "officialese."

All this now up on my blog.

#Egyptology #Linguistics
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(For those who are interested, this is the amazing research of Peust 2017, locating the distinctive r/l feature of the so-called "Fayumic" dialect of #Coptic.)

"ⲙⲡⲛⲁⲩ ⲛϩⲧⲟⲟⲩⲉ" dear people of the Internet. Today, I say "good morning in Safihic Coptic:
"Coptic has no modern-day native speakers, and no fluent speakers apart from a number of priests although it remains in daily use as the liturgical language of the ...1/2

Almost everyone but a few insufferable liberals like Naguib Mahfouz and Omar Shariff opposed it. The Coptic Church and the Muslim Brotherhood and even the Salafis were in agreement about opposition to it.

tbf, they did celebrate Global Coptic Day last year.

American-Irish
a collage of old collages

Milad Malak, a 20-year-old Egyptian Coptic deacon, was reportedly killed by militants in Libya after refusing to deny Jesus.
#libya #christians #coptic #realtheodore

alright i'll share on tumblr tomorrow after i assemble my sample book and take pics but i have my extremely basic coptic stitch fanbinding guide written up at last. quozzel.neocities.org/fanbinding

A parishioner who is a Marian shrine pilgrim brought me a holy card from the Church of the Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, Cairo, Egypt.

I’ve been doing Ge’ez (so classical Ethiopic, not Amharic but related!) and Coptic :)

This is the Pope meeting Archbishop Abednego XVII, the head of the branch of the Syrian Coptic Church that recognises him as the Holy Father, isn't it?

Despite what you learn in textbooks, Ancient Egyptian might have had a way to write L -- it was a digraph of I + R.

Exhibit #1 is iry "any" > #Coptic ⲖⲀⲀⲨ "nothing."

The latest, on my blog.

#Egyptology #Linguistics
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...Coptic Orthodox Church and of the Coptic Catholic Church.[6][8] It is written with the Coptic alphabet, a modified uncial form of the Greek alphabet with seven additional letters borrowed from the Demotic Egyptian script.[6]"
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Sorry Sadihic Coptic

Last hieroglyphs: Philae, Aug 24, 394 CE. Language lived on as Coptic, still sung in church. Can a language die if people still sing it? #History

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Yes. But the two back fricative sounds h~ḥ ultimately merge by Proto-Coptic to ϩⲱⲣ, ϩⲁⲣ, ϩⲣ-, etc. It’s not clear at what point this happened since our transcription of elements like the Horus falcon in Demotic is conservative. Satzinger estimates the 7th century BCE for Proto-Coptic though.

That's interesting, I didn't know about the Coptic usage in Egypt, only the famous Quranic prohibition of al-nasīʾ

إِنَّمَا النَّسِيءُ زِيَادَةٌ فِي الْكُفْرِ يُضَلُّ بِهِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُحِلُّونَهُ عَامًا وَيُحَرِّمُونَهُ عَامًا لِيُوَاطِئُوا عِدَّةَ مَا حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ فَيُحِلُّوا مَا حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ زُيِّنَ لَهُمْ سُوءُ أَعْمَالِهِمْ وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْكَافِرِينَ [التوبة: 37].

Now available through #OpenAccess -

"Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Coptic Studies (Brussels, 11–16 July 2022), Volume II: Studies in #Coptic #Linguistics in Memory of Wolf-Peter Funk."

#Egyptology
books.openedition.org/irht/2078