Talk:Coptic alphabet
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"The Coptic alphabet came into use during the 4th century AD after the Greeks conquered Egypt."
This looks very suspect.
[edit] I agree
I agree totally that this sentence is suspect. I believe it is historically inaccurate. The Coptic Alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet with seven extra letters, which come from demotic, the last step of development of the Egyptian language. The Greeks concurred Egypt in the 3rd century C. Between the 3rd century BC and the 1st century AD, Egyptians still wrote in demotic letters. However, the ease of the Greek alphabet made it useful to translate the New Testament into Egyptian using Greek letters, in order to satisfy the need of the growing Egyptian Christian population at that time. The Egyptian language (1st century AD) written in Greek letters, became to be known as Coptic later when the Arabs invaded Egypt. I will do more research and modify the article. -User:afanous
[edit] Alphabet
This is not good. Firstly the image box is overlapping the wiki-table with the unicode characters. Secondly, the letters in the table are mismatched. First the majuscles are listed in pairs, then the minuscles are similarly listed in pairs, but instead the majuscle of each letter should be paired with the minuscle. --Pinnerup 16:17, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
- The letters in the table are correct. The problem is that some fonts (e.g. "MPH 2B Damase") have a wrong layout. If you got that font installed, try to remove it. — Monedula 07:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, my! You're totally right. Bad font! It's gone now. Thank you for the help. --Pinnerup 11:46, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
- Guys, how come the unicodes don't appear on my computer? I added the capital and small letters, but people must have Coptic fonts installed (I used the CS New Athanasius) to be able to see them correctly. Any words about the unicodes? Thanks User:Lanternix
- Oh, my! You're totally right. Bad font! It's gone now. Thank you for the help. --Pinnerup 11:46, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
The Coptic Unicode range is fairly new, so browsers are still catching up. Internet Explorer users seem to be having the most trouble, but I think the latest version of IE supports Coptic. If you download New Athena Unicode now, you should be able to see the fonts. — [zɪʔɾɪdəʰ] · ☥ 07:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
