Frank Feder
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9789774166631
- eISBN:
- 9781617976551
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774166631.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Mesokemic (siglum: M) is a dialect of Coptic that was discovered relatively late. Paul E. Kahle was the first to describe its characteristics and distinguish M clearly from the other dialects of ...
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Mesokemic (siglum: M) is a dialect of Coptic that was discovered relatively late. Paul E. Kahle was the first to describe its characteristics and distinguish M clearly from the other dialects of Upper Egypt and the Fayoum. The corpus of texts in Mesokemic then known to Kahle was very small, but comprised very early documents that shed light on the early development and usage of different dialectal varieties of Coptic for literary texts in the third and fourth centuries. Since then the corpus has grown substantially and there is now a comprehensive idea of Mesokemic's lexical and morphological features. This chapter provides a list of all the published biblical, literary, and documentary texts that are written in the Mesokemic, and discusses its morphophonological characteristics and geographical situation.Less
Mesokemic (siglum: M) is a dialect of Coptic that was discovered relatively late. Paul E. Kahle was the first to describe its characteristics and distinguish M clearly from the other dialects of Upper Egypt and the Fayoum. The corpus of texts in Mesokemic then known to Kahle was very small, but comprised very early documents that shed light on the early development and usage of different dialectal varieties of Coptic for literary texts in the third and fourth centuries. Since then the corpus has grown substantially and there is now a comprehensive idea of Mesokemic's lexical and morphological features. This chapter provides a list of all the published biblical, literary, and documentary texts that are written in the Mesokemic, and discusses its morphophonological characteristics and geographical situation.
