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Multiple Choice? Language‐usage and the Transmission of Religious Tradition in the Coptic Orthodox Community in London

British Journal of Religious Education, 1998
Coptic orthodox children growing up in London today form a part of a multi‐lingual community. The article discusses how different languages are used in the transmission of religious tradition within this community. The usage and significance of liturgical languages, the parent‐generation's mother tongue and the new first language of the children are ...
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Coptic Arabic Literature: When Arabic Became the Language of Saints

2013
Copto-Arabic literature is rich and diverse, just like its authors: popes, bishops, monks, and most notably, intellectual laymen. It is a subject, of course, that cannot be covered in such a short essay, which aims mainly to give an overview and to focus on some important examples. The Arab conquest of Egypt in AD 641 was a turning point in the history
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Word Translating Image. In search of modern-language equivalents for Syriac and Coptic terminology

Folia Orientalia, 2018
In general the iconographic details recorded in the hagiographic literature are pretty meagre. Authors focus on the miraculous properties of icons. The Coptic lives of the saints may be selected as representative for the Early Christian and Byzantine hagiography.
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Popular Traditions of the Coptic Language

The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 1937
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The Coptic language

Notes and Queries
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Using Scenarios in Language Contact Studies. Linguistic Borrowing into Coptic

2017
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Coptic Language

2022
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Coptic as a Nubian literary language

2018
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PISTIS SOPHIA AND THE COPTIC LANGUAGE

The Journal of Theological Studies, 1926
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COPTIC LANGUAGE RESOURCES, INCLUDING BIBLICAL LEXICA

2020
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