Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 22/11/2004 09:44, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> Peter Kirk wrote:
>  
>
> > (Quoting me)
> >    
> >
> > > Loprieno's phonetic transcription of Coptic certainly has no
> > > theta, ...
> > >
> > >      
> > Thanks for the clarification. The Coptic alphabet, according to
> > http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n2636.pdf, certainly
> > seems to have a theta (although variously names thethe, thita, 
> > tutte, tida) which clearly corresponds in shape, position in the 
> > alphabet and numeric value with the Greek theta. If this document 
> > is in fact based on false information, there may just be time to 
> > stop the letter being separately encoded in Unicode, but it looks 
> > to me like it is clearly attested.
> >    
>
> The text sample does not include this letter, among others.  I 
> suppose now it's not meant to be all inclusive, but just to give a
> general idea of the sound.
>
>  
What do you mean? Figure 8, word 4, letter 2, figure 12 Coptic text word 
7 letter 2, figure 15 word 5 letter 4 all look like theta. Are you 
really trying to deny the existence of theta (as a letter rather than a 
sound) in the Coptic alphabet?


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