Coptic : a grammar of its six major dialects /
Coptic is the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language, written in an alphabet derived primarily from Greek instead of hieroglyphs. It borrows some vocabulary from ancient Greek, and it was used primarily for writing Christian scriptures and treatises. There is no uniform Coptic language, but ra...
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Format: | Licensed eBooks |
Language: | English |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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Series: | Languages of the ancient Near East. Didactica ;
v. 1. |
Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jj.22136011 |