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)
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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.
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hi, sorry. did coptic just give up on naming yellow and just start calling it "color"?
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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smh duolingo doesn't offer coptic
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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)
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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
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