Coptic: The Final Ancient Egyptian Language

00:00 Intro
00:52 Phases of the Egyptian Language
2:19 Dialects of Coptic
4:36 Origins of Coptic Script
7:55 Genres of Coptic Lit
12:22 Later History

[violetrose]

I am a coptic christian from Egypt, thanks for bringing forth a cultural cornerstone of Copts of Egypt to the awareness of others. It fills my heart with peace to see part of my culture shown out with respect.

[wanderingkangaroo]

When I younger, I actually knew Coptic. My church still uses it. Very beautiful!

[narmergeorge]

My husband speaks Coptic, He teaches our children and they speak Coptic with him as a native language . We are Akhmimic Egyptians .

[Ο_Νικόλας]

As a student in Egyptology currently studying Coptic, I’m very pleasantly surprised by this video. It was very complementary to what we learn at the university :)

[nickscurvy]

"this isn't even my final form!" - ancient demotic

[SomasAcademy]

Knowledge of the Coptic language also played a vital role in allowing early Egyptologists to figure out how to read Hieroglyphics. If anyone is interested in learning more, I have a series on my channel called "Decoding Hieroglyphs, " and in Part 2 I talk about early Egyptologist Jean Francois Champollion's study of Coptic.

[Rudyavrilich]

im egyptian and i really thank you for your effort and share with us 🇪🇬God bless you

[cookies.lover]

I am an Italian- Filipina that studied the coptic language for one semester in Germany 😅 My major was ancient cultures and I was free to choose one of the ancient languages available and I went for coptic. In our course were only 6 students. It was really exciting and fun to learn this language and attempting to read and write it. It felt like I was doing something sacred and magical. It is really sad that it is one of the dying languages. My professor dedicated her entire life on the subject of analyzing coptic ancient culture and it’s language. She told me that the university wanted to remove coptic language from the program because there were only few participants. But she said she was happy if only one person could learn it. I changed my major later to economics and politics but my coptic lesson was the most fun subject in my entire university time. I also kept all of the study papers and documents for grammar and vocabulary until now.

[emmy]

out of pure curiosity I took 2 semesters of coptic as an undergrad taught by a professor in our religion department who specialized in gnosticism. I was the only person in there who wasnt a grad student specializing in early christianity lol, but it was really cool and I learned a lot not just about the language but also from the texts she had us read

[eliayacoub]

As an Orthodox Christian Egyptian, I'm really grateful for you for making this video, ty❤️

[minadent]

I am Coptic and learned many new things about the Coptic language from your video. Thank you.

[keronader]

As a Coptic Egyptian (coptic orthodox)got really excited when i saw the title!

[markwagdyel-magrisy]

Thanks for making this episode ❤️
Greetings from a Copt.

[jaca]

I WAS JUST BEGINNING TO GET OBSESSED WITH COPTIC THIS VERY SAME WEEK, AND THEN YOU JUST SO HAPPEN TO RELEASE THIS VIDEO! This is some sort of cosmic connection

[cemreomerayna]

I loved it! As an amateur linguist and translator I wish at least some classics departments included Coptic and Aramaic/Syriac in their curriculum considering how important languages they were in the late antiquity.

[youssefelmasry]

I’m Egyptian and you nailed it 👌🏼 thank you 🙏🏼

[bfharb]

Claudius Labib is my grand uncle and I was always proud of his work. Very pleased he was mentioned in this video.

[BaronEurchild]

I have no doubt you are one of the wisest people to talk about these topics. Not because you know the most, but because you know enough to cite all of the research you have done. You are standing on the shoulders of giants and you acknowledge that, which is way wiser than most YouTube scholars.

[MrCofet]

I don't comment much but I just want to personally thank you for your hard work in your dissemination of various topics.

[sorenaleksander]

We who love these channels know what Coptic is only very generally. This quick history has a lot of information packed into it, and is utterly fascinating!!! Just - GREAT!!! Cheers!