This paper motivates and details the first implementation of a freely available part of speech tag set and tagger for Coptic. Coptic is the last phase of the Egyptian language family and a descendent of the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt. Unlike classical Greek and Latin, few resources for digital and computational work have existed for ancient Egyptian language and literature until now. We evalu...

This paper motivates and details the first implementation of a freely available part of speech tag set and tagger for Coptic. Coptic is the last phase of the Egyptian language family and a descendant of the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt. Unlike classical Greek and Latin, few resources for digital and computational work have existed for ancient Egyptian language and literature until now. We evalu...

This paper describes what the authors have done in order to typeset some Coptic texts with LATEX mainly in the Bohairic variant used in liturgy. This implied the creation of suitable fonts, the macros for typesetting special liturgical symbols, the hyphenation patterns necessary to typeset with the Coptic alphabet and the rules used by the Bohairic variant.

Articles by Gaston Wiet in the 1920s, M. Perlmann in 1942, and Donald Little in 1976 have encouraged the perception that the first century of the Mamluk period marked a turning-point in the history of Coptic conversion to Islam. According to Wiet in his article on the Copts in the Encyclopaedia of Islam: "The government of the Mamluks gave the coup de grâce to Christianity in Egypt," and he goe...

The primary goal of this paper is to develop an Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004) analysis of the root and pattern morphology of Coptic. Coptic (spoken ca. 300-1300 C.E.) was the last stage of the Ancient Egyptian language, and its root and pattern morphology has not previously been analyzed from a synchronic perspective. Specifically, I aim to determine whether the consonantal...

Furthermore, historical texts are not passed down through the centuries in their entirety but rather contain lacunae and fragmentary words. This makes automatic post-correction more difficult on historical texts than on modern ones. We used two tools to create languageand even documentspecific recognition patterns (or so-called models) to recognize printed Coptic texts. Coptic is the last stage...

The laboratory results from the mummy of a 25–35-year-old adult male (“Moses”/Q.445-2012) dating from the Middle Coptic period (AD 4th to 8th century) are reported. This individual was recovered from the Coptic necropolis of Qarara in Middle Egypt during the joint excavation performed by the Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen (Germany) and the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona in March 2012. Speci...

We report on the implementation of a morphological analyzer for the Sahidic dialect of Coptic, a now extinct Afro-Asiatic language. The system is developed in the finite-state paradigm. The main purpose of the project is provide a method by which scholars and linguists can semi-automatically gloss extant texts written in Sahidic. Since a complete lexicon containing all attested forms in differe...