Coptic Language
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Did you know that Reading Coptic is.....
I mean it ! The grammar may be somewhat difficult, but reading itself is even easier than English. I am not joking!!!
Take these examples :
- In English, the letter "A" is pronounced differently according to where it is in the word: car, hat, case, meat, heart, ball. The corresponding letter in Coptic "Alfa" is always pronounced as "a" in "car".
- The same apply for the letter "E": Egypt, meat, see, heart, well, letter, care,...The corresponding letter in Coptic "E" is always pronounced as "a" in "share".
- The same apply for the letter "I": always as "i" in "tin".
- In English, the same word may be read differently: read, read (past). Never in Coptic.
- In English, sometimes some letters are not pronounced: island, Knee, know. Never in Coptic.
- Look at these words : sea, heavy, heart. All have "ea", but the pronounciation is different in each word. Any rule??? I do not know one. In Coptic, there are always simple rules to know how to pronounce the letters.
- In English, if "g" is followed by "e", it may be pronounced as "g" (get) or "j" (germ). In Coptic, there is a rule: "Jinja" is always pronounced "j" if followed by "e".
- The Coptic letters are 32. Nearly half of them look like English letters: e.g. a e o i b c / k m n r t ] , z. Many of those are pronounced similarly, but some are different.
- Some of the Coptic letters are pronounced in 2 or 3 different ways. But there are simple rules, if you know them you can easily read.
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