Spirituality aside, the Egyptian Orthodox church is currently
the most effective guard of the Coptic Egyptian writing.
This video is NOT posted for evangelical religious reasons,
but for its informative content.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Coptic Tip 4: Numbers in a Sentence
Numbers are treated as adjectives describing a singular noun.
Meaning, the position of the number relative to the noun is interchangeable, but whichever is first must have an article and whichever follows must have a (`n) or (`m).
And the article, definite or indefinite, masculine or feminine, MUST be singular no matter the number.
pishomt `nalou - the three young men
tisheri `n`snav - the two daughters
Meaning, the position of the number relative to the noun is interchangeable, but whichever is first must have an article and whichever follows must have a (`n) or (`m).
And the article, definite or indefinite, masculine or feminine, MUST be singular no matter the number.
pishomt `nalou - the three young men
tisheri `n`snav - the two daughters
Hieroglyphic Tip 4: Writing Numbers
Hieroglyphic numerals were written horizontally or vertically.
The different symbols were grouped according to their power of ten. For instance, the hundreds were followed by the tens, in turn followed by the units.
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