Copt-gú

Copt-gú
	ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
Goân-chū kok-ka	Aiki̍p
Bîn-cho̍k	Copt-jîn [en]
Era	Literary: c. 3rd – c. 14th century AD (Roman Egypt); Spoken: c. 3rd – c. 17th or 19th century AD; Liturgical: c. 3rd century AD – present;
Gí-hē	Afro-Asiatic Aiki̍p-gú Copt-gú; ;
Chá-kî hêng-sek	Archaic Egyptian Old Egyptian Middle Egyptian Late Egyptian Demotic ; ; ; ;
Hong-giân	Bohairic; Sahidic; Akhmimic; Lycopolitan; Fayyumic; Oxyrhynchite;
Bûn-jī hē-thóng	Copt jī-bó
Gí-giân tāi-bé
ISO 639-2	cop
ISO 639-3	cop
Glottolog	copt1239
	Coptic is an extinct language according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Copt-gú (Bohairic Copt-gú: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, timetremənkhēmi; ing-gú: Coptic language) sī bi̍t-tshiat siong-kuan ê tē-hng gú-giân gú-hē,^[5] mā tāi-piáu Ai-ki̍p gú-giân ê tsuè-sin huat-tián,^[2]^[6] copt-gú li̍k-sú siōng uì kong-guân tē-3 sè-kí khai-sí teh Roma Ai-ki̍p iû copt-jîng sóo sú-iōng,^[7] Teh Muslim tsing-ho̍k Ai-ki̍p liáu-āu, copt-gú tō hōo Alapik-gú tshú-tāi uî Ai-ki̍p tsú-iàu ê kháu-gú, pīng teh kuí-ā-ê sè-kí tsi-lāi copt-gú ta̍uh-ta̍uh-á hōo alapik-gú sóo tshú-tāi. Copt-gú kin-á-ji̍t pìng-bô ū bó-gú jîn-sū tsûn-tsāi,^[8] Sui-bóng copt-gú guân-tsāi tsok-uî copt tāng-tsìng-káu kàu-tn̂g kap copt thian-tsú kàu-tn̂g ê jî-siông sing-ua̍h tiong ê lé-pài gî-sik gú-giân.^[9] Gú-giân, im-ūn-ha̍k ê tshòng-sin í-kip Ellás guā-lâi-gú ê ióng-ji̍p kā copt-gú kap tsá-kî ê Aiki̍p-gú khu-hun tshut--lâi. Copt-gú sī-iōng copt jī-bó lâi su-siá ê, tse-sī Elláda jī-bú ê tsi̍t-tsióng siu-kái hîng-sik, iah-koh ū kuí-ā-ê uì Ai-ki̍p thong-sio̍k-gú lāi-té tsió-lâi ê gia̍h-guā jī-bú.^[10]

Tsú-iàu ê copt gú-giân sī Sahidic-gú, Bohairic-gú, Akhmimic-gú, Fayyumic-gú, Lycopoli-gú kah Oxyrhynchite-gú. Sahidic copt-gú teh Asyut-gú hām Oxyrhynchus-gú^[11] siânn-tshī tsi-kan sú-iōng, pīng tehc. 325 – c. 800 AD. sî-kî tsok-uî tsi̍t-tsióng bûn-ha̍k gú-giân teh Ai-ki̍p tuā-huat-tshái.^[12] Bohairic-gú sī Nile Delta [en] ê gú-giân, tī 9 sè-kí liû-hîng, sī copt kàu-huē sú-iōng ê hong-giân.^[13] Sui-bóng bi̍t-tshiat siong-kuan, copt gú-giân teh im-ūn, gú-giân hîng-thài hām sû-luī hong-bīn hōo-siong bô kâng-khuán.

Bîng-tshing ên-khí

Copt-gú ê pún-tē bîng-tshing teh Bohairic-gú (Delta) ê tē-hng gú-giân kiò-tsò ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ (/təmətɾəmənˈkʰeːmə/); teh sahidic-gú (suann-khàm) tē-hng gú-giân tō kiò-tsò ⲧⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲣⲙ̄ⲛ̄ⲕⲏⲙⲉ (/təməntəɾəmənˈkeːmə/). Lia̍t-sū tōng-sû "mouti" (ⲙⲟⲩϯ, 'to speak') ê tsōo-sû tsiân-tuat me(n)t- teh copt-gú tang-tiong tsiânn-tsò tsiânn-tsē thiu-siōng-bîng-sû (m̄-nā kán-ná sī hia--ê kah "gú-giân" iú-kuan ê bîng-sû). Su̍t-gú "remənkʰēmi/rəmənkēme" ê ì-sù sī "Aiki̍p-jîn", jī-bīn ê ì-sù sī "Ai-ki̍p ê lâng", sī rem- ê ho̍k-ha̍p-sû, tse tio̍h-sī copt bîng-sû ⲣⲱⲙⲓ/ⲣⲱⲙⲓ/ⲣⲱⲙⲉ, "lâng, jîn-luī" ê kòo-sîng tsōng-thài, + sio̍k-kik kài-sû (ə)n- (ⲛ̀, 'of') + piáu-sī "Ai-ki̍p" ê sû-gú, "kʰēmi/kēme" (ⲭⲏⲙⲓ/ⲕⲏⲙⲉ; tsham-kiàn Kemet). In-tshú, kui-ê piáu-ta̍t ê jîn-bîn ì-sù sī "Ai-ki̍p jîn-bîn ê gú-giân", hi̍k-tsiá kiò-tsò "Ai-ki̍p gú-giân".

Copt-gú ê līng-guā tsi̍t-ê bîng-tshing sī "təməntkuptaion" (ⲧⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲕⲩⲡⲧⲁⲓⲟⲛ), sī lâi-tsū Copto-Elláda gú (Copto-Greek) ê hîng-sik (ⲧⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲁⲓⲅⲩⲡⲧⲓⲟⲛ, 'Aiki̍p-gú'). Tsit-ê su̍t-gú "logos ən aiguptios" (ⲗⲟⲅⲟⲥ ⲛ̀ⲁⲓⲅⲩⲡⲧⲓⲟⲥ, "Aiki̍p-gú") teh Sahidic-gú mā-ū tsìng-bîng tsi̍t-tiám, m̄-ku logos hām aiguptios lóng khí-guân teh Elláda-gú. Teh Copt Tang-tsìng-káu Kàu-tn̂g ê gî-sik lāi-té, koh-khah tsìng-sik ê bîng-tshing sī "tiaspi ənremənkʰēmi" (ϯⲁⲥⲡⲓ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, "Ai-ki̍p ê gú-giân"), "aspi" (ⲁⲥⲡⲓ) sī Aiki̍p ê gú-giân tān-sû.

Tē-lí hun-pòo

Copt-gú kin-á-ji̍t teh Copt Tang-tsìng-kài hām Copt Thiantshu kàu-tn̂g (í-kip hiān-tāi piau-tsún Alapik-gú) tang-tiong iōng gî-sik hîng-sik lâi sú-iōng. Tsit-ê gú-giân kán-ná teh Ai-ki̍p sú-iōng, li̍k-sú siōng teh líng-thóo í-guā uá-beh bô íng-hióng, tû-liáu khiā-tī Nubia ê siu-tō-īnn. Copt-gú siōng hián-tù ê gú-giân íng-hióng sī tuì Ai-ki̍p alapik-gú ê kok-tsióng tē-hng gú-giân, i-ê ti̍k-tiám sī-teh sû-luī, gú-giân hîng-thài, kù-huat hām gú-im ti̍k-ting hong-bīn kū-iú Copt ê ki-tshóo hām ti̍k-tsit.^[14]

Tuì kî-thann gú-giân ê íng-hióng

Tû-liáu íng-hióng Aiki̍p alapik-gú ê gú-huat, sû-luī kah kù-huat í-guā, Copt-jîn [en] koh hiòng Alapik-gú hām Hiān-tāi ivrít-gú [en] koh tsió-iōng i-hā ê sû-gú:

Tsù-kái

↑ Richter, Tonio Sebastian (2009). "Greek, Coptic and the 'language of the Hijra': the rise and decline of the Coptic language in late antique and medieval Egypt" (PDF). Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East. Cambridge University Press. p. 404. The most long-lived genres of Coptic texts, composed until the thirteenth and even fourteenth century in the Upper Egyptian dialect, are scribal colophons, inscriptions and graffiti.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 P. Allen, James (2020). Coptic: A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects. Penn State Press. p. 1. ISBN 9789042918108. Coptic is the name of the final stage of the Egyptian language, spoken and written from the third century AD until perhaps sometime in the seventeenth century.
↑ The language may have survived in isolated pockets in Upper Egypt as late as the 19th century, according to James Edward Quibell, "When did Coptic become extinct?" in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, 39 (1901), p. 87. In the village of Pi-Solsel (Az-Zayniyyah or El Zenya north of Luxor), passive speakers were recorded as late as the 1930s, and traces of traditional vernacular Coptic reported to exist in other places such as Abydos and Dendera, see Werner Vycichl, Pi-Solsel, ein Dorf mit koptischer Überlieferung in: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo, (MDAIK) vol. 6, 1936, pp. 169–175 (in German).
↑ P. Allen, James (2020). Coptic: A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects. Penn State Press. p. 1. ISBN 9789042918108. It [Coptic] is still used today in the rituals of the Coptic (Egyptian Christian) Church.
↑ P. Allen, James (2020). Coptic: A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects. Penn State Press. p. 1. ISBN 9781646020843. ...there is no uniform “Coptic” language, but a number of dialects.
↑ Layton, Benjamin (2007). Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises & Vocabularies. Peeters Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 9789042918108. It [Coptic] is the direct descendant of Ancient Egyptian...
↑ Richter, Tonio Sebastian (2009). "Greek, Coptic and the 'language of the Hijra': the rise and decline of the Coptic language in late antique and medieval Egypt" (PDF). Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East. Cambridge University Press. p. 404. From everything we know it must be assumed that the spoken language behind the written evidence of Coptic was usually acquired as a first language, which means as mother tongue in non-Hellenised, or non-Arabised Egyptian families, but scarcely, if at all, as a second language.
↑ "Coptic". Ethnologue (ēng Eng-gí). 2022-05-17 khòaⁿ--ê.
↑ Layton, Benjamin (2007). Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises & Vocabularies. Peeters Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 9789042918108. The liturgy of the present day Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt is written in a mixture of Arabic, Greek, and Bohairic Coptic, the ancient dialect of the Delta and the great monasteries of the Wadi Natrun. Coptic is no longer a living language.
↑ Layton, Benjamin (2007). Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises & Vocabularies. Peeters Publishers. p. 1. The Coptic alphabet is the twenty-four Greek letters written in rounded form (thus ⲉ ⲥ ⲱ), to which are added six additional letters taken from Egyptian (Demotic script): ϣ ϥ ϩ ϫ ϭ ϯ.
↑ Blasco Torres, Ana Isabel (2017). Representing Foreign Sounds: Greek Transcriptions of Egyptian Anthroponyms from 800 BC to 800 AD. University of Salamanca. p. 613. doi:10.14201/gredos.135722. goân-loē-iông tī 2021-05-16 hőng khó͘-pih. 2022-09-30 khòaⁿ--ê. ...four main dialects were spoken in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Bohairic in the Delta, Fayumic in the Fayum, Sahidic between approximately Oxyrhynchus and Lykopolis and Akhmimic between Panopolis and Elephantine.
↑ Layton, Benjamin (2007). Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises & Vocabularies. Peeters Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 9789042918108. Coptic comprised a number of dialects, of which Sahidic (centered perhaps in Shmoun-Hermopolis-AI Ashmunein) had the greatest literary importance and the widest use in the Nile valley. Almost all native Coptic literature was composed in Sahidic, between AD 325-800.
↑ P. Allen, James (2020). Coptic: A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects. Penn State Press. p. 1. ISBN 9781646020843. Bohairic, a northern dialect, is first attested in the fourth century AD but is primarily represented by texts from the ninth century and later; it is also the dialect used by the modern Coptic Church.
↑ "Coptic Language History". www.axistranslations.com. goân-loē-iông tī 2016-03-27 hőng khó͘-pih. 2020-05-24 khòaⁿ--ê.

Ên-sin sú-iōng

It-puann gián-kiú

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Gú-huat hām bûn-huat gián-kiú

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Jī-tián

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Phonology

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Tsham-khó su-bo̍k

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Tsham-ua̍t

Hiān-tāi ivrít-gú [en] (Modern Hebrew)

Guā-pōo liân-kiat

By Alin Suciu, a blog on Coptic literature and manuscripts (Eng-gí)
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Coptica.ch Online library of Coptic texts at University of Geneva (site text in French) (Hoat-gí)
New Athena Unicode font; includes the new Coptic range (Eng-gí)
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A comprehensive Coptic language resource (Remenkimi) (Internet Archive) (Eng-gí)
Coptic block in the Unicode 4.1 standard (Eng-gí)
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[1] Richter, Tonio Sebastian (2009). "Greek, Coptic and the 'language of the Hijra': the rise and decline of the Coptic language in late antique and medieval Egypt" (PDF). Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East. Cambridge University Press. p. 404. The most long-lived genres of Coptic texts, composed until the thirteenth and even fourteenth century in the Upper Egyptian dialect, are scribal colophons, inscriptions and graffiti.

[timespan-2] 2.0 ^2.1 P. Allen, James (2020). Coptic: A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects. Penn State Press. p. 1. ISBN 9789042918108. Coptic is the name of the final stage of the Egyptian language, spoken and written from the third century AD until perhaps sometime in the seventeenth century.

[extinct-3] The language may have survived in isolated pockets in Upper Egypt as late as the 19th century, according to James Edward Quibell, "When did Coptic become extinct?" in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, 39 (1901), p. 87. In the village of Pi-Solsel (Az-Zayniyyah or El Zenya north of Luxor), passive speakers were recorded as late as the 1930s, and traces of traditional vernacular Coptic reported to exist in other places such as Abydos and Dendera, see Werner Vycichl, Pi-Solsel, ein Dorf mit koptischer Überlieferung in: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo, (MDAIK) vol. 6, 1936, pp. 169–175 (in German).

[4] P. Allen, James (2020). Coptic: A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects. Penn State Press. p. 1. ISBN 9789042918108. It [Coptic] is still used today in the rituals of the Coptic (Egyptian Christian) Church.

[5] P. Allen, James (2020). Coptic: A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects. Penn State Press. p. 1. ISBN 9781646020843. ...there is no uniform “Coptic” language, but a number of dialects.

[6] Layton, Benjamin (2007). Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises & Vocabularies. Peeters Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 9789042918108. It [Coptic] is the direct descendant of Ancient Egyptian...

[7] Richter, Tonio Sebastian (2009). "Greek, Coptic and the 'language of the Hijra': the rise and decline of the Coptic language in late antique and medieval Egypt" (PDF). Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East. Cambridge University Press. p. 404. From everything we know it must be assumed that the spoken language behind the written evidence of Coptic was usually acquired as a first language, which means as mother tongue in non-Hellenised, or non-Arabised Egyptian families, but scarcely, if at all, as a second language.

[8] "Coptic". Ethnologue (ēng Eng-gí). 2022-05-17 khòaⁿ--ê.

[9] Layton, Benjamin (2007). Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises & Vocabularies. Peeters Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 9789042918108. The liturgy of the present day Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt is written in a mixture of Arabic, Greek, and Bohairic Coptic, the ancient dialect of the Delta and the great monasteries of the Wadi Natrun. Coptic is no longer a living language.

[10] Layton, Benjamin (2007). Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises & Vocabularies. Peeters Publishers. p. 1. The Coptic alphabet is the twenty-four Greek letters written in rounded form (thus ⲉ ⲥ ⲱ), to which are added six additional letters taken from Egyptian (Demotic script): ϣ ϥ ϩ ϫ ϭ ϯ.

[11] Blasco Torres, Ana Isabel (2017). Representing Foreign Sounds: Greek Transcriptions of Egyptian Anthroponyms from 800 BC to 800 AD. University of Salamanca. p. 613. doi:10.14201/gredos.135722. goân-loē-iông tī 2021-05-16 hőng khó͘-pih. 2022-09-30 khòaⁿ--ê. ...four main dialects were spoken in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Bohairic in the Delta, Fayumic in the Fayum, Sahidic between approximately Oxyrhynchus and Lykopolis and Akhmimic between Panopolis and Elephantine.

[12] Layton, Benjamin (2007). Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises & Vocabularies. Peeters Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 9789042918108. Coptic comprised a number of dialects, of which Sahidic (centered perhaps in Shmoun-Hermopolis-AI Ashmunein) had the greatest literary importance and the widest use in the Nile valley. Almost all native Coptic literature was composed in Sahidic, between AD 325-800.

[13] P. Allen, James (2020). Coptic: A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects. Penn State Press. p. 1. ISBN 9781646020843. Bohairic, a northern dialect, is first attested in the fourth century AD but is primarily represented by texts from the ninth century and later; it is also the dialect used by the modern Coptic Church.

[14] "Coptic Language History". www.axistranslations.com. goân-loē-iông tī 2016-03-27 hőng khó͘-pih. 2020-05-24 khòaⁿ--ê.

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