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Canis Majoris:
Bashandy, are Greco-Bohairic pronunciation, neologisms, and liberal grammatical structure a problem?
Admin:
It does cause many problems.
1. Some shortcuts become very hard to recognize
for example ⲁϥⲛⲁⲩ ⲉⲟⲩⲣⲱⲙⲓ [ af.naw e.ou.rwmi ] (he saw a man) can sometimes be found written like this ⲁϥⲛⲁⲩ ⲉⲩⲣⲱⲙⲓ [ af.naw ew.rwmi ]
It's ok because originally the ⲟⲩ and ⲩ sound very close but now ⲩ is pronounced V so the second sentence is pronounced differently from the first and become hard to recognize.
In the same way all kind of spelling mistakes for old manuscripts become very difficult to be recognized since letters that used to sound the same now sound very differently.
2. It's difficult language for Egyptians.
Throughout Egyptian history we have never pronounced the English "th" nor the "V" but suddenly these letters has been introduced making it harder for Egyptians to pronounce Egyptian language.
Canis Majoris:
Is ⲉⲩⲣⲱⲙⲓ(eurōmi) Sahidic dialect?
Admin:
No, both examples are Bohairic.
Canis Majoris:
Is the Sahidic dialect pronounced distinctly to the Bohairic dialect? Are they even intelligible?
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