#coptic language

[egyptianrenaissance]

Past tense in Coptic

ⲁⲓ- (I)

ⲁⲕ- (you masculine)

ⲁⲣⲉ- (you feminine)

ⲁϥ- (he)

ⲁⲥ- (she)

ⲁⲛ- (we)

ⲁⲣⲉⲧⲉⲛ- (you pl.)

ⲁⲩ- (they)

Examples:-

Ⲡⲁϧⲱⲙ ⲁϥϣⲉⲛⲁϥ ⲉ̀ϯⲁⲛⲍⲏⲃ (Pakhom went to school)

ⲧⲁⲙⲁⲩ ⲁⲥⲟⲩⲉⲙ ⲡⲉⲥϧⲣⲉ (my mother ate her food)

ⲛⲓϧⲣⲟϯ ⲁⲩϫⲉⲣϫⲉⲣ ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲓϭⲱⲙ (the kids played in the garden)

#coptic #egypt #ⲭⲏⲙⲓ #egyptian #kemet #ancient egypt #archeology #pharaonic art #egyptian mythology #pharaoh #coptic language #grammar #past tense

[bijoumikhawal]

I was researching Northeast African lyres recently and came across two songs from this channel written in Old Coptic! This first one is about the new year, which for Copts occurred earlier this month. I would've shared these anyway but a lot of the comments on these videos aren't very pleasant, so I also want to expose them to a more positive audience.

#cipher talk #actually egyptian tag #Masr #Coptic #Coptic language #Coptic art #Coptic music #Youtube

[dougielombax]

Just leaving this here.

Feel free to reblog.

#dougie rambles #political crap #middle east #Asia #africa #north africa #Egypt #coptic #languages #language revival #language #language revitalization #endangered languages #threatened languages #Coptic language #Coptic people #news #everything is in the news today #reblog this #please reblog this #reblog the shit out of this

[aphemorpha]

hi, sorry. did coptic just give up on naming yellow and just start calling it "color"?

#ancient egypt #coptic language

[daybreaksys]

#ancient egyptian #egyptian language #egyptian #egyptology #languages #linguistics #hieroglyphs #hybrit #lingblr #langblr #alephbet #hebrew alphabet #daybreak system #daybreaksystem #sandstone #language nerd #coptic #sahidic #sahidic coptic #coptic language #coptic alphabet #hyperfixation #hyperfixation go #special interest #rocks #stone #sand #notebook #notes #study notes

[feluka]

did i ever tell you guys i was invited to meet pope shenouda in fayyum and perform in front of him when i was a kid but my dad said no LMAO

#i won a coptic language competition and all finalists received invitations to sing coptic hymns for him #dad didn't want me to travel so i was forced tl turn it down :( it was so disheartening that i gave up on yhe language entirely #i have picked it back up recently though :)

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

Come learn German with us /lh

i would love to but unfortunately i have Ass Dont Have Dopamine and cant focus long enough to learn a language

#which sucks #because there are like seventeen languages we want to learn #list of languages we want: #spanish french german greek russian ASL finnish swedish FSL japanese korean arabic coptic portuguese #and thats not even counting all the dead ones we want to learn for ritual purposes

[thatlittleegyptologist]

i would read the grammar essay tbh

yeahhhhh but no one else would and the set up it'd take to make it understandable to someone not versed in Late Egyptian would be unreal

#especially since you have to know an entirely separate form of the language AND a little Coptic before you try to get LEg

[linguisticalities]

#endangered languages #language revival #coptic

[note-a-bear]

Just saw a trailer for a horror movie seemingly based on Jewish mysticism. Me being a fan of religiously inflected horror, I go to the name of the director/writer. No one I recognize. I go to the wiki for him and....he's almost def not actually Jewish.

*Wilhelm scream*

I fucking hate hate hate how hard it is to come across movies dealing with not-xtian religious-ish horror.* And I hate that on the rare occurrence you do see something that's supposedly not-xtian, most of the time it has no one from the subject group involved in writing or directing. It's especially galling because the whole thing with most religious horror is the invocation of some kind of esoteric or obscure element but given that...yknow...lots of religions and cultures are closed, and any esoterica is either incredibly specific (meaning you can't just graft xtian interpretations of concepts onto them and say 'close enough'), or elements of an even *more* closed part of that religion.

At best what we get is something lazy and boring, but not intentionally offensive. At worst it's a complete slap in the face of the subject religion/culture.

*note: this complaint is largely about mainline releases in the US/UK/Canada. Which, yes obvs these are heavily culturally xtian places but also there are a lot of not-xtians involved and fans of genre media so it's increasingly frustrating that they're like...not 'rare' finds in that they're not out there, but rare in that they don't get as much (if any) marketing push.

#like at a certain point just be lazy within the parameters of xtian horror please #dicking around in someone else's culture especially for purposes of horror-fying it is beyond excuse at this point #and real talk: theres MORE than plenty xtian esoterica out there to get into #but like...dont go stealing concepts from like the coptics and then making some wildly anti-arab shit yknow #or like utilizing language of the Ethiopian orthodoxy to show spooky backwards xtians yknow?

[egyptianrenaissance]

ϩⲁⲛⲣⲁⲛ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ϩⲁⲛⲧⲉⲃⲛⲱⲟⲩⲓ ⲛⲉⲙ ϩⲁⲛϩⲁⲗⲁϯ ϧⲉⲛ ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ

Names of animals and birds in Coptic

#coptic #egypt #kemet #ⲭⲏⲙⲓ #archeology #ancient egypt #egyptian #egyptian mythology #pharaonic art #pharaoh #africa #coptic language #languages #ancient languages #art #egyptian language #north africa #coptic art #history #kumat

[bijoumikhawal]

Coptic lesbians (inspired by @felrija's work)

#cipher talk #actually egyptian tag #my art #Masr #Might do an ink & color of this eventually #What does one call a lesbian in Coptic. We have ⲧⲣⲓⲃⲁ so tribade does calque p much directly #But I think we could be more inventive. ⲧⲣⲓⲃⲁⲕⲣⲓⲛⲟⲛ perhaps #Though I am biased to prefer to create de-Hellenized terminology and that's all Greek influence on the language right there

[gotosleepsydney]

smh duolingo doesn't offer coptic

#duolingo #coptic #let me learn languages

[catullansparrowlet]

Oh, the thrill of narrowly getting out of a forced grippy sock vacation caused by someone seeing one crying a bit in the staircase of the university and, instead of asking if everything was alright, deciding to call emergency services.

#We'll take you with us if there's no one you can call right now #care about your well-being and all you talk about is wanting to go home! #this day has been a lot; I'm physically ill and I lost the keys to my bike which made me late to class #like this is a uni building- everyone here has cried over at least one of their courses #with all due respect to the languages of the ancient near east: we love you guys but sometimes you are a bit much for our sanity #and that is okay #nothing like a shared cry over Coptic or Akkadian homework to really create a bond y'know #but jesus fuck the arrival and threat of was unnecessary and stressful #and then they had the audacity to shout at me bc they #like duh? #Fam I love you but there's nothing a paramedic can so to make me suddenly remember all those cuneiform signs in time for exam week #so yeah I want to go home to where the books are that should be able to help me #And no I was not actually in crisis #This wasn't even a panic attack #just a meek little cry #and they wanted to put me away #tsk #CW: mental health #CW: hospitalisation #CW: forced hospitalisation #CW: crying #CW: university #I feel like Akkadian should have a CW too at this point #so #CW: Akkadian

[daybreaksys]

Egyptian had three words written "sbꜣ".

One was pronounced síbaʀ and meant Star/Meteor (𓋴𓃀𓄿𓇼𓇳).

The other was sabíʀ and meant Door/Gateway (𓋴𓃀𓇼𓄿𓉐).

One was pronounced sábaʀ and meant "to teach" (𓋴𓃀𓇼𓀜).

𓋴 is s, 𓃀 is b, 𓄿 is ꜣ (ʀ).

𓇼 is star, 𓇳 is sun, 𓉐 is house.

Note also how they use 𓇼 in the other words to reinforce that "they're pronounced like star".

They became quite different in Coptic:

Star = ⲥⲓⲟⲩ (siu)

Door = ⲥⲃⲉ (sbe)

Teach = ⲥⲃⲱ (sbô)

#egyptian language #ancient egyptian #ancient egypt #egyptology #egyptian #hieroglyphs #languages #lingblr #langblr #linguistics #star #stars #door #doors #words #gateway #teaching #coptic #sahidic

[feluka]

HELP MEEEEEE my mom just told me there used to be a well known Coptic monk called "مينا المتوحد"

For those who don't speak Arabic this guy's name is "Mina Al-Motawahhed" which would translate to "Mina the Autistic" in English

#that's the only thing people are allowed to call me now. not autistic but THE autistic. thank u #the origin of his name is that he was a solitary guy who always lived alone in caves and such #and the root word for 'alone' is the same as the one for 'autistic' and because of the way arabic works this gem of a name happened #also yes mina is an exclusively masculine name in coptic #i only learned later after i chose it that in most languages it's a feminine name!