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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Khepera9evolution: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Fourty2Tribes: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [qb] The basic problem with Asar's work is that following Mboli, he assumes that Coptic is not related to ancient Egyptian. This makes his whole theory groundless. it is groundless because ancient Egyptian was deciphered and is read using Coptic, so the two languages are related. [/qb][/QUOTE]I could be wrong but it sounds to me that both Asar and Mboli consider Coptic to be an ancient Egyptian language just different than ME which you should know too. Anyone can look at ME and Coptic and see that they are different languages. [/qb][/QUOTE]Pg. 46 It is observations like this that help in the assumption of a continuity between the languages of M-E and Coptic, when in fact, as we argue, it is the result of existing relatively peacefully in a confluence zone which facilitated the synthesizing of culture and shared linguistic features: enough to make researchers think that Coptic is the last stage of Egyptian. Pg 63 What probably happened is that after the end of the Middle-Kingdom, and the Second Intermediate Period, the indigenous population gained their independence and the N-K>Coptic Languages became languages of administration and writing. The Coptic language may actually be a dialect of N-K that was adapted by a foreign population that settled in Km.t. When we look at the appearance of the Copts today, they do not at all resemble that of the artwork of the rmt.w from earlier periods. And It is my contention that the adoption of the Greek signs is because the Copts, partly, originated with and/or identified with people from the regions of the Aegean and Mesopotamia and vowels were critical to the understanding of the speech for which the original syllabary of ciKam would not have been adequate. And secondly there is no reason to even argue that Coptic and Middle Egyptian are the SAME because no one says they ARE THE SAME... They say that Coptic is a continuation of Egyptian language... Asar Imhotep totally disagrees with that and tries to say that Coptic is the result of foreigners speaking with Middle and Late Egyptian hence borrowing which he says "Makes researchers THINK that Coptic is the last stage of Egyptian"... That point is preposterous on the fact that these languages were spoken at vastly different time periods... its just like saying Proto Germanic, Old English, Modern Eglish, Afrikaans, and Old Saxon were all spoken at the EXACT SAME TIME... if that makes sense to you then i can see why you like this book [/qb][/QUOTE]Greek was used as a lingua franca in Africa after the Romans took control of Egypt as a result, many African groups including the Beja, Noba, and Copts wrote texts in Greek. We also have Axumite Greek inscriptions. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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