THE GREAT EFFECT OF DEVELOPING A COPTIC POLITICAL LEXICON
The Coptic language is not dead, but it has been reduced, through Arab and Islamic oppression, from the occupying of all lingual domains of a lively language to the domain of religion. Gradually,...
View ArticleREVERSING THE COPTIC LANGUAGE SHIFT: MOVING ACROSS DOMAINS IN AN OPPOSITE...
Diagram representing the historical language shift from Coptic to Arabic and the path along which the process of Coptic language restoration and expansion must follow Many speak of Coptic as a dead...
View ArticleWORDS EXPRESSING SAME CONCEPTS TECHNICALLY MEAN THE SAME BUT IN REALITY THEY...
Constitution : دستور Democracy : ديمقراطية Freedom : حرية Above are words in both English and Arabic. They all technically mean the same, but in reality they aren’t. The meaning of...
View ArticleTHE HORRIFIC HONORIFIC SYNDROME OF MODERN COPTS 1: INTRODUCTION
The Washing of the Feet: Will a person who insists on being addressed by his pompous honorifics be able to wash feet? So won’t the man who is hiding behind in the shadow. Modern Copts are afflicted by...
View ArticleIT’S APA, NOT ABBA OR ANBA OR AMBA
A biological father in Coptic is called Apa (Ⲁⲡⲁ) by his child. It is an endearing word for a father that Coptic children used, just like a British or American child would use Daddy, PA, or Papa to...
View ArticleIT’S AMA, NOT TASOANI
As Ⲁⲡⲁ (Apa) is the Coptic word used by a child for its biological father and was adopted to call a spiritual father too, so is Ⲁⲙⲁ (Ama) is the Coptic word used by a child for its biological mother,...
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