WebCoptic (Bohairic Coptic: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, timetremǹnkhēmi) is a language family of closely related dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third-century AD in Roman Egypt. Coptic was supplanted by Arabic as the primary spoken language of Egypt following the Muslim …

WebThe varieties (or dialects or vernacular languages) of Arabic, a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family originating in the Arabian Peninsula, are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. There are considerable variations from region to region, with degrees of mutual intelligibility that are often related to geographical distance and some …

WebCoptic-language manuscripts of the New Testament include some of the earliest and most important witnesses for textual criticism of the New Testament. [citation needed] Almost 1000 Coptic manuscripts of the New Testament have survived into the 21st century.[citation needed] The majority of them represent Sahidic and Bohairic dialects; only very few …

WebThe Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language.The repertoire of glyphs is based on the Greek alphabet augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic and is the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian language.There are several Coptic alphabets, as the Coptic writing system may vary greatly among the various …

WebTunisian Arabic, or simply Tunisian, is a set of dialects of Maghrebi Arabic spoken in Tunisia. It is known among its over 11 million speakers as: تونسي, romanized: Tounsi (), "Tunisian" or Derja "everyday language" to distinguish it from Modern Standard Arabic, the official language of Tunisia.Tunisian Arabic is mostly similar to eastern Algerian Arabic …

WebThe Coptic language is a Coptic liturgical language; Cornish – Kernewek, Kernowek Recognised Minority Language in: Cornwall, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Corsican – Corsu Recognised Minority Language in: the French Republic; ... Dialects ǂ. ǂAkhoe – ǂAkhoe ...

WebCoptic may refer to: . Afro-Asia. Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya; Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century; Coptic alphabet, the script used for writing the Coptic language, encoded in Unicode as: . Greek and Coptic (Unicode …

WebEgyptians speak a continuum of dialects. The predominant dialect in Egypt is Egyptian Colloquial Arabic or Masri/Masry (مصرى Egyptian), which is the vernacular language. Literary Arabic is the official language and the most widely written.The Coptic language is used primarily by Egyptian Copts and it is the liturgical language of Coptic Christianity

WebLanguage contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other. ... Coptic, the last stage of ancient Egyptian, is a substratum of Egyptian Arabic. ... change may be manifested only in particular dialects, jargons, or registers. South African English, ...

WebKatakana (片仮名、カタカナ, Japanese pronunciation: [katakaꜜna]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more …