Dr. Schroeder co-founded and is a Principal Investigator of the interdisciplinary online research platform Coptic Scriptorium, which produces digital editions, natural language processing tools, and ...

The Church has its origins in Egypt, and is keeping the Coptic language alive. Its 32-letter alphabet is an adaptation of the Greek alphabet with the inclusion of seven characters from ancient ...

The language underwent many variations – Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, and Late Egyptian until its last phase, the Coptic alphabet. As the language evolved, it became more widely spoken by the common ...

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home in New Haven from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

At least two grants awarded to Georgetown University faculty were terminated April 2 by the National Endowment for the ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

I enjoy words and language. I am fascinated that 26 letters of the English language can form approximately one million words. Weirdly enough, only about 170,000 of these words are currently in use.

I made no serious efforts to learn the language, partly because I was able to survive knowing basic Japanese and using the aforementioned app. Another reason I’ve been contemplating why learning ...