I want to revive Coptic, the last Egyptian language. This is mainly because I don't want to see the language being restricted to Coptic churches or in certain areas in Egypt, because such an ancient language doesn't deserve to be restricted to history books.
Actually, all western alphabets originate from proto-sinatic which originates from Egyptian hieroglyphs(Egyptian Hieroglyphs -> Proto-Sinaitic -> Phoenician alphabet -> Greek alphabet). Anyways, >What's Coptic like? Coptic has a very weird grammar, if you don't at least speak Egyptian Arabic(the closest modern "language" to Coptic) the grammar will be very alien. Coptic is written in greek alphabet, with the addition of 6 or 7(Bohairic dialect, which is used by the Church of Alexandria, uses 1 more letter) letters taken from Demotic. About 7% of Coptic's vocabulary is greek loanwords, however those are only used in religious ceromonies such as hymns, the rest is egyptian.
>What am I going to gain by learning Coptic? Not much really but it's just that my dream is to see Coptic being used in all of Egypt. On top of that, it's a pretty cool language and you guys probably have quite a lot of time on your hands so I figured I would ask you.
I have wanted to do this for a while but I never started. And t.bh, I'm not very enthusiastic about Egyptian identity or history as I was like a year ago. I'm still interested in learning Coptic though, set up a discord server maybe?
Leo Brown
>set up a discord server maybe? discord.gg/wfHaBn3 - I just made it but I will be busy for the rest of today :/
Alexander Clark
To be honest I kinda like having an entire alphabet just for my language
Brody Miller
You need to be enthusiastic about you Egyptian identity because it's being attacked by everyone these days, over time it will be destroyed forever, like what happened with other ancient peoples.
Chase Hill
I mean your alphabet's origins are egyptian though.
It takes small steps to revive a language. Go to you local magic carpet seller and start talking ordinary coptic words like "Cip tio? Opt cip! Pict clpotkik ptlp ckltp? Tictoc pliplop!"
At this point, clench your fist and go away. A group of females will observe you and proclaim, "what a wonderful coptic chad".
Jack Edwards
>It takes small steps to revive a language Yeah man but I have hope and I want to start a movement. The thing is, social media is HUGE in Egypt so it's really easy to reach anyone and given how unstable Egypt is and how the Arab identity is fragmenting, it should be easier than expected I guess.
>"Cip tio? Opt cip! Pict clpotkik ptlp ckltp? Tictoc pliplop!" That isn't how it sounds tho. It has more "eh"/syllable stop sounds(called Jinkim) and "kh" sounds.
Andrew Gutierrez
Thats cool Good luck frens
Ryan Torres
There has only been one successful attempt at reviving language, it's Hebrew. The only way to revive a language isn't acquisition later in life, it's to have babies. That's the only endurable way to revive a language.
Everyone except Chinese, Korean and Japanese uses a variant of hieroglyphics.
Juan Cook
Hebrew itself wasn't revived by having babies, but by gathering a large group of people who spoke different languages, soooo.. Have you ever talked to anyone in real life about this? I have tried this with Berber (Because I'm Moroccan) and non of them took me seriously.
Gavin Campbell
>Have you ever talked to anyone in real life about this? I have tried this with Berber (Because I'm Moroccan) and non of them took me seriously. I did try talking to my father and he said something along the lines of "Because I am muslim, my only language is Arabic." but I told him that there are about 1.7 billion muslims yet there are only ~450 million Arabic speakers(including non-muslim arabic speakers) and he told me to screw off.
However, my father doesn't represent the majority of Egyptians because he is extremely religious, in fact he was part of the salafi movements during his college years in around the 1980s.
Angel Clark
cringy why this meme is making islam look at fault and how is it related to the language
Elijah Lopez
No idea but people like to strongly associate arabic with islam for some fucking reason.
Ethan Hughes
Yeah Muslims, anytime you try to talk about the coran they always pull out "you need to read it in arabic" or something about muh translation. Arabic culture has been spread by islam, not nearly by its own value.
Jace Anderson
Because just like what said, If you look at comments in some youtube video you'll see things like "أنا أفتخر بعروبتي, يكفيني أن الرسول عربي" from people who barely have anything to do with Arabs, I'm not saying that Islam is directly responsible though.
