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Postal Address:
427 West Side Ave
PO Box 4397
Jersey City, NJ 07304
U.S.A.
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The present 32 letters of the Coptic Alphabet are derived from two sources; The first 25 letters are modified from the Greek alphabet (table 1); it should be remembered that the origin of these Greek letters can be traced back to the old Egyptian letters. Whereas the last 7 letters are a modification from Demotic letters (table 2).
Shape | Letter | Pronunciation | Example | |
A | a | Alpha |
A | father or fan |
B | b | Veeta | B In beginning of the word V In the middle or the end of the word |
boy Victor |
G | g | Ghamma |
G |
Gone England |
D | d | Delta |
TH | then David |
E | e | Ei |
E | pen, or as rain |
^ | ^ | Soo | Only used as the numeral 6 | sow |
Z | z | Zeeta | Z | zebra |
Y | y | Eeta | EE | meet |
: | ; | Theeta | Th T | think |
I | i | Iota | I Y | imagine yet |
K | k | Kappa | K | cook |
L | l | Lamda | L | look |
M | m | Mei | M | mother |
N | n | Nei | N | Nancy |
X | x | Eksee | X | box |
O | o | O | O (short) | not |
P | p | Pee | P | Peter |
R | r | Ro | R | room |
C | c | Seema | S | see |
T | t | Tav | T D if preceded by the letter N | take |
U | u | Epsilon | V if follows an A or
E U if follows the letter O Y in all other cases | Van Loop Hymn |
V | v | Fei | F | fan |
< | , | Kai | K Sh Kh |
kin |
" | ' | Epsee | PS (both are pronounced) | |
W | w | O | O (Long) | throw |
S | s | Shai | Sh | shake |
F | f | Fai | F | fan |
Q | q | Khai | Kh | Arabic خ (kh) |
H | h | Horee | H | house |
{ | [ | Cheema | Ch | church |
} | ] | Tee | Tee | tee |
J | j | Janja | G J |
go joy |
` | Jinkim | Splits word in syllables if over a vowel E if followed by a consonant |