The second letter in the Coptic alphabet is Beta also Veta

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jun 1, 2010 at 18:41

More from our dear iam

>Yes I know how to google -

No you do not the correct address should have been

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_alphabet

For the readers the second letter in the Egyptian/Coptic language is Beta or Veta

and for this just scroll and read

Now for readers that can read books something that you our dear iam cannot I urge them to check Nabil Matter "A study in Bohairic Coptic" Published by Hope publishing house Pasadena, Ca

And on page 6 and let us read it

2. B or veeta or Beta

And you are ignorant

> and study history also.

You study history? really? You are ignorant and a demagogue

>Your submissions are totally baseless - quoting new languages as a manipulation. Check the dates herein. The original, ancient languages, even Phoenecian - did not contain the 'V'. The new languages acquired these recently.

Then prove me wrong but you cannot because you are debating languages that you cannot speak read or write

>Coptic or Coptic Egyptian^[7] (Met Remenkēmi) is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the seventh century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the first century. The new writing system became the Coptic script, an adapted Greek alphabet with the addition of six to seven signs from the demotic script to represent Egyptian sounds the Greek language did not have. Several distinct Coptic dialects are identified, the most prominent of which are Sahidic and Bohairic.Coptic and Demotic are grammatically closely akin to Late Egyptian, which was written in the hieroglyphic script. The main difference is in the writing. Coptic flourished as a literary language from the second to thirteenth centuries, and its Bohairic dialect continues to be the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. It was supplanted by Egyptian Arabic as a spoken language toward the early modern period, though revitalization efforts have been underway since the nineteenth century.

ROTFL Wrong reference

Now here is a very interesting case that would be beyond your poor education

1. The ancient city of Coptos (in Greek and Kipt in Cotpic and it has nothing to do with the term Qibt or Copt as you shall see) was located in Upper Egypt just north of the great city of Ape (Luxor)

2. After the Arab invasion the name of this city was Arabized into QIFT

3. How did this happen? Now let us work on it the ltter the C letter is vocalized as K and in Arabic it would be Arabic Qaf

3. The P presented an interesting problem as there is no letter P in Arabic so it would be Arabized as the letter B but to the Copts who were Arabizing these names the sound B is really a V

4. Now there is no V in Arabic and the V would become Arabic F

5. Et voila Greek Coptos becomes Coptic Kipt and Arabized Qift

Now i do not except you to understand a word of the above

For the readers: The above is indeed the evidence that the name of the City of Coptos has nothing to do with the Arabic word Qibt or Copt

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