Sahidic

Citation:

Shisha-Halevy, A., 1992. Sahidic. In The Coptic Encyclopaedia. pp. 194–202.

Abstract:

Sahidic (siglum S) is a major Coptic dialect, earlier known as Upper Egyptian, Theban, or the southern dialect; the term “Sahidic”, used by Athanasius of Qūṣ, was adopted by Stern (1880). In twentieth-century Coptology, S has been the main dialect of study and research—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). […]

See also: Coptic
Last updated on 01/18/2018