tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post193721553652764876..comments2024-03-20T01:06:12.181-04:00Comments on MEI Editor's Blog: Coptic Pope Shenouda III, 1923-2012Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-38428136563972146042012-03-24T00:55:22.250-04:002012-03-24T00:55:22.250-04:00Anonymous:
Yes, the census is an issue. One was s...Anonymous:<br /><br />Yes, the census is an issue. One was supposedly taken but the results never published. Which is why estimates of what percentage of the population is Coptic.Michael Collins Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07398326467953722017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-295749520943763162012-03-24T00:53:31.837-04:002012-03-24T00:53:31.837-04:00xoussef:
I may indeed do a post on the extinction...xoussef:<br /><br />I may indeed do a post on the extinction of spoken Coptic, but it's a complicated by contradictory estimates of when te spoken language died out. (I'm personally dubious about claims that make very late.)There are more Copts than Syriac/Assyrian Christians, so why did Aramaic/Syriac survive and Coptic didn't? We're all just guessing, but I may post on it.Michael Collins Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07398326467953722017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-26439991286131553112012-03-19T05:45:48.850-04:002012-03-19T05:45:48.850-04:00This is great. I really appreciate your posts and ...This is great. I really appreciate your posts and learn a lot from reading them. Could you also touch on the lack of a census in Egypt and the issues that's caused? I believe it was part of the reason for the fall out between Sadat and His Holiness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-47731765880947198232012-03-18T19:55:12.934-04:002012-03-18T19:55:12.934-04:00Could you please sometime, may be in marge of thes...Could you please sometime, may be in marge of these upcoming succession series, touch upon the extinction of the Coptic language as a non-liturgical language, and how it had come to be totally replaced by Arabic despite many thriving communities never being Islamised?xoussefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16043074262858696228noreply@blogger.com