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      <title>Sahidic Coptic alphabet chart</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Today I’m releasing a <a href="https://bencrowder.net/languages/coptic/sahidic-alphabet/">Sahidic Coptic alphabet chart and worksheet</a>. The chart:</p>
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<p>And the worksheet:</p>
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      <title>Coptic Latin</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Crowder]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>I was googling around for information on Latin vowel shifts (to see if the shift from <em>adalter</em> to <em>adulter</em> was unique or if the <em>a</em> to <em>u</em> shift happened with other words, too) and came across the Omniglot page on <a href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/copticlatin.php">Coptic Latin</a>. My first thought was: uh, what? (Mostly since I’ve studied both Coptic and Latin, and Coptic doesn’t have really anything to do with Latin. Greek, yes. But Latin?)</p>
<p>Turns out it’s a modern mashup of the Coptic script and the Latin language, invented by David Biliot to help his students start learning Catholic Latin (which I’m guessing is just another name for Church Latin or ecclesiastical Latin). Interesting idea. And, you know, there’s precedence for this sort of thing, since Coptic itself was a mashup of the Greek script (with modifications) and the Egyptian language.</p>
<p>Here’s the sample text from Omniglot’s page (which I’ve retyped using two different fonts, the second of which I find a bit more readable):</p>
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<p>Transliteration: <em>Omnes homines dignitate et jure liberi et pares nascuntur, rationis et conscientiae participes sunt, quibus inter se concordiae studio est agendum.</em></p><hr class="feed-extra" style="margin-top: 48pt;" /><p class="feed-extra feed-mail"><a href="mailto:ben.crowder@gmail.com?subject=Re%3A%20Coptic Latin">Reply via email</a></p>]]></description>
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