Egypt
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- New Book: Egyptian
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten Egyptian. An Introduction to the writing and language of the Middle Kingdom Volume I: Grammar, Syntax and Indexes; Volume II: Sign lists, Exercises and Reading Texts J.F. Borghouts 2010 This is a data-oriented...
- Will The Coptic Language Rise Again?
RantRave Some people agonise over endangered species. My pet cause is endangered languages. When I hear that a dialect is dying out or that young people aren’t passing on an obscure language, it saddens me. It is one thing to examine shards of pottery...
- Revisiting Coptic Cairo
Egyptian Gazette (Navigate to Tourism section to find the story, which will expire in the next few days) Old Cairo (Masr al-Qadima in Arabic) describes the area that grew up around the Roman fortress of Babylon, built in the time of Augustus after his...
- Demotic Egyptian
Egyptian Demotic The chronologically penultimate variety of the Egyptian language is known as Demotic. Demotic is the most cursive script developed by the Egyptians. This stage of the language has, in many ways, connections to the preceding stage, Late...
- The Scribes Of Brazil
ANBA - Arab-Brazil News Agency (Isaura Daniel) To some Brazilians, the hieroglyphs used in Ancient Egypt are no mystery. They are few, less than ten in the country, but they understand the language of the pharaohs. And they use their knowledge to read...
Egypt
Coptic Language's last survivors
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Considered an extinct language, the Coptic language is believed to exist only in the liturgical language of the Coptic Church in Egypt. The ancient language that lost in prominence thanks largely to the Arab incursion into Egypt over 1300 years ago remains the spoken language of the church and only two families in Egypt.
Coptic is a combination of the ancient Egyptian languages Demotic, Hieroglyphic and Hieratic, and was the language used by the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt following the spread of Greek culture throughout much of the Near East. In essence, it is the language of the ancient Egyptians themselves. . . .
Coptic is the language of the first Christian church in history, and when the members of the two families that speak the colloquial form of Coptic die, it will be the first language of the early Christian churches to become extinct.
- New Book: Egyptian
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten Egyptian. An Introduction to the writing and language of the Middle Kingdom Volume I: Grammar, Syntax and Indexes; Volume II: Sign lists, Exercises and Reading Texts J.F. Borghouts 2010 This is a data-oriented...
- Will The Coptic Language Rise Again?
RantRave Some people agonise over endangered species. My pet cause is endangered languages. When I hear that a dialect is dying out or that young people aren’t passing on an obscure language, it saddens me. It is one thing to examine shards of pottery...
- Revisiting Coptic Cairo
Egyptian Gazette (Navigate to Tourism section to find the story, which will expire in the next few days) Old Cairo (Masr al-Qadima in Arabic) describes the area that grew up around the Roman fortress of Babylon, built in the time of Augustus after his...
- Demotic Egyptian
Egyptian Demotic The chronologically penultimate variety of the Egyptian language is known as Demotic. Demotic is the most cursive script developed by the Egyptians. This stage of the language has, in many ways, connections to the preceding stage, Late...
- The Scribes Of Brazil
ANBA - Arab-Brazil News Agency (Isaura Daniel) To some Brazilians, the hieroglyphs used in Ancient Egypt are no mystery. They are few, less than ten in the country, but they understand the language of the pharaohs. And they use their knowledge to read...