@inbook {10346,
	title = {Sahidic},
	booktitle = {The Coptic Encyclopaedia},
	volume = {8},
	year = {1992},
	pages = {194{\textendash}202},
	abstract = {Sahidic (siglum S) is a major Coptic dialect, earlier known as Upper Egyptian, Theban, or the southern dialect; the term {\textquotedblleft}Sahidic{\textquotedblright}, used by Athanasius of Quṣ, was adopted by Stern (1880). In twentieth-century Coptology, S has been the main dialect of study and research{\textemdash}indeed Coptic par excellencem today totally supplanting Bohairic in this respect (compare, for instance, its precedence in Crum, 1939, to that of Bohairic in Stern, 1880). [{\textellipsis}]},
	author = {Shisha-Halevy, Ariel}
}
