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Coptic Language Learning and Social Media [PDF]
Languages, 2019 This study explored the potential of using the Internet, including existing social media platforms, for Coptic language learning. Through global exposure, endangered language maintenance and revitalization efforts may benefit from having a presence on ...
D. Nicole Deschene
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CONSTRUCTIONS WITH NEGATIVE PREFIX at IN THE COPTIC LANGUAGE [PDF]
Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2021 ( Ar) التراكيب ذات البادئة النافية فى اللغة القبطية تتناول هذه الورقة البحثية البادئة النافية at التي تدخل علي الأسماء والأفعال لتكوّن اسمًا مجردًا منفيًا (صفة منفية) حيث إنه يوجد العديد من الأسماء المجردة تتكون من البادئة النافية at . علاوة على ذلك،
Shaimaa Abdelsttar Ahmed
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Body Language of the Holy Virgin Mary in Coptic Iconography [PDF]
Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality, 2021 The Holy Virgin Mary has always been an inspiration to iconographers and sculptors through ages. She is widely represented in Coptic art in themes like the annunciation, the nativity, the crucifixion, the flight to Egypt, and the entombment. In such paintings, the Holy Virgin is shown with varied facial and physical gestures, denoting different ...
Ahmad Mohamed Khalaf Mohamed
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An Integrated Software Application for the Ancient Coptic Language
Journal of Computer Science Research, 2023 Coptic language was an important period of the Egyptian language, coinciding with a period of social and cultural changes. Coptic is also associated with the Greek language, as its alphabet is used for the transcription of Coptic. Despite the fact that the Coptic element is strong in Greece, the theoretical background is rather weak.
Argyro Kontogianni +2 more
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A~Small Step for a Man, a Giant Leap for a People---The Coptic Language [PDF]
Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, 2021 The paper looks at the beginnings of the Coptic alphabet in first- and second-century Egypt from different angles. It reviews and builds on the sometimes-contradictory research from the social perspective while also considering practical challenges for the ancient writers.
Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel
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Language-Specific Transitivities in Contact: The Case of Coptic
Journal of Language Contact, 2019 This paper sketches the integration of Greek-origin loan verbs into the valency and transitivity patterns of Coptic (Afroasiatic, Egypt), arguing that transitivities are language-specific descriptive categories, and the comparison of donor-language transitivity with target-language transitivity reveals fine-grained degrees of loan-verb integration ...
Eitan Grossman
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Coptic language in Christian Ethiopia (until the 19th Century)
, 2019 The purpose of this paper is to present various forms of presence of the Coptic language in the Ethiopian writing until the 19th Century. In this period we witness the birth, flourishing and decay of a Christian ecclesiastical culture with Classical Ethiopic (Ge‘ez) as its literary language within a well-defined political entity of the Ethiopian Empire.
Marcin Krawczuk
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Contact-Induced Language Change of Egyptian-Coptic
arbeitstitel | Forum für Leipziger Promovierende, 2012 The DDGLC project, started in April 2010, intends to address a major lacuna in Coptic studies by providing a systematic description and analysis of attested loanwords. The phonological, morphological, semantic and stylistic/ rhetorical aspects of these borrowings are to be studied, for all classes of loanwords, and for all dialectal and subdialectal ...
Franziska Naether +1 more
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Lacuna Language Learning: Leveraging RNNs for Ranked Text Completion in Digitized Coptic Manuscripts [PDF]
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages (ML4AL 2024)Ancient manuscripts are frequently damaged, containing gaps in the text known as lacunae. In this paper, we present a bidirectional RNN model for character prediction of Coptic characters in manuscript lacunae. Our best model performs with 72% accuracy on single character reconstruction, but falls to 37% when reconstructing lacunae of various lengths ...
Lauren Levine +4 more
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Investigation of attitudes to identity, culture and language in a Coptic school community
, 2019 While there has been a substantial growth in Coptic communities in Australia, there has been limited research on these communities. The aim of this thesis is two-fold. It hopes to contribute to educators’ knowledge of student development in Coptic schools, pastoral care and curriculum considerations.
Shenouda Mansour
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