Introductory remarks
For all topics, a good place to start is Atiya, Aziz S. (1991) The Coptic Encyclopedia, 8 vols. (New York: Macmillian Publishing Company).
For a detailed bibliography, you should consult Kammerer, Winifred (compiler). A Coptic Bibliography (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950; Reprint New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969). Updates to be found in Simon, J. Bibliographie copte. In: Orientalia 18 (1949) - 36 (1967). There is also a good selected biography from Macquarie University.
General discussions
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Emmel, Stephen
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1992
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Languages (Coptic). In: David N. Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary (Volume 4). New York: Doubleday, pp 180–188
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Loprieno, Antonio
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1995
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Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
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1995
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Ancient Egyptian and other Afroasiatic Languages. In: J. Sasson (ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. London: Scribners, pp 2135-2150
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2001
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From Ancient Egyptian to Coptic. In: Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König, Wulf Oesterreicher, Wolfgang Raible (eds.), Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook (Volume 2). Berlin: Walter de Gruyten, pp 1742-1761 Book Preview
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2004
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Ancient Egyptian and Coptic. In: Roger D Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 160-191
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Polotsky, Hans J.
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1971
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Coptic. In: Carleton Taylor Hodge (ed.), Afroasiatic: A Survey (Jana Linguarum: Series Practica 163). The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter, pp 67–79
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Grammars
For a historical overview of Coptic grammars, see Fort, Jean-Louis. Temps et Aspect:Les Données des Grammaires Coptes (Paris: 2002), on which the bibliography below is based. For a discussion of the personalities behind those early grammars, see Hamilton, Alastair. “Grammars, Dictionaries, and Dialects” pp. 229-249. The Copts and the West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); Preview the book here.
The most recent and widely used Coptic grammars of the Sahidic dialect are those of Lambdin (1983), Layton (2004), Reintges (2004) and the newest grammar by Layton (2007). Another Sahidic grammar, now sixty years old but freely available on the internet is that of Plumley (1948). The newest Bohairic grammars are those of Horrocks (1985), which is not widely available, Mattar (1990) and Younan (2005).
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Blumberg, Christian G.
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1716
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Fundamenta Linguae Copticae (Leipzig: Groschuff)
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Black, George F.
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1893
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Grammar of the Coptic Language with Easy Reading Lessons [A copy of MacDonald (1856)]
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Chaîne, Marius
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1910
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Compendium Morphologiae Copticae (Rome: Pont. Universitatem Gregorianam)
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1933
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Éléments de Grammaire Dialectale Copte: Bohairique, Sahidique, Achmimique, Fayoumique (Paris: Geuthner)
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1934
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Les Dialectes Coptes Assioutiques A2: Les Charactéristiques de Leur Phonétique, de Leur Morphologie, de Leur Syntaxe. Supplément aux Éléments de Grammaire Dialectale Copte (Paris: Geuthner)
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1945
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Le Verbe Copte: Sa Conjugaison dans Ses Rapports avec l’Égyptien (Paris: Geuthner)
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Eccles, Lance
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1991
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Introductory Coptic Reader. Extracts from the Gospel of Thomas with Full Grammatical Explanations (Kensington: Dunwoody Press)
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Guidi, Ignatius
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1924
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Elementa Linguae Copticae: Brevi Chrestomatia et Indice Vocabularum Instructa (Napoli: Ricciardi)
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Kosack, Wolfgang
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1974
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Lehrbuch des Koptischen. Teil I: Koptische Grammatik. Teil II: Koptiche Lesetücke (Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlaganstalt)
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Kircher, Athanasius
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1636
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Prodromus Coptus Sive Aegyptiacus (Rome)
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1643
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Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta (Rome)
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Horrocks J. B.
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1985
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An Elementary Coptic Grammar (Bohairic Dialect; in 3 parts)
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Houghton, Herbert P.
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1959
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The Coptic Verb: Bohairic Dialect 2ed rev (Leiden: EJ Brill; 1ed 1948)
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Lambdin, Thomas O.
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1983
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Introduction to Sahidic Coptic (Macon: Mercer University Press)
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Layton, Bentley
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2004
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A Coptic Grammar with Chrestomathy and Glossary: Sahidic Grammar 2ed rev (Porta Linguarum Orientalium 20, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz; 1ed 2000)
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2007
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Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises and Vocabularies (Leuven: Peeters)
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MacDonald, William B.
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1856
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Sketch of a Coptic Grammar: Adapted for Self-Tuition (London: George Philip & Son)
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Mallon, Alexis & Malinine Michel
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1956
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Grammaire Copte: Bibliographie Chrestomathie et Vocabulaire 4ed (Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique; 1ed 1904, 2ed 1907, 3ed 1926)
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Maspero, Gaston
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1871
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Des Formes de la Conjugaison en Égyptien Antique, en Démotique et en Copte (Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études 6, Paris: Libraine A Frank)
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Mattar, Nabil
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1990
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A Study in Bohairic Coptic (Pasadena: Hope Publishing House)
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Murray, Margret A.
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1927
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Elementary Coptic (Sahidic) Grammar 2ed (London: Quaritch; 1ed 1911)
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Orlandi, Tito
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1970
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Elementi di Lingua e Letteratura Copta. Corso di Lezioni Universitarie (Milan: La Goliardica)
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1983
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Elementi di Grammatica Copto-Saidica (Roma: Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari)
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Peyron, Vittorio A.
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1841
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Grammatica Linguae Copticae (Turin)
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Plisch, Uwe-Karsten
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1999
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Einführung in die Koptische Sprache: Sahidischer Dialekt (Sprachen und Kulturen des Christlichen Orients 5, Wiesbaden: Reichert)
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Plumley, John M.
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1948
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An Introductory Coptic Grammar: Sahidic Dialect (London: Home & Van Thal)
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Polotsky, Hans J.
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1944
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Études de Syntaxe Copte (Cairo: Société d’Archéologie Copte)
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1971
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Collected Papers (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University)
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Reintges, Chris
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2004
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Coptic Egyptian (Sahidic Dialect): A Learner's Grammar (Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher 15, Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag)
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Rosellini, Ippolito
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1837
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Elementa Linguae Aegyptiacae Vulgo Copticae (Rome: commissioned by Francisci Archini)
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Scholtz, Christianus & Woide, Carolus G.
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1778
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Grammarica Aegyptiaca Utriusque Dialecti (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
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Schwartze, Möritz G.
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1850
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Koptische Grammatik (Berlin: Dümmler)
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Sethe, Kurt
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1899-1902
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Das Aegyptische Verbum im Altaegyptische, Neuaegyptische und Koptischen (Leipzip: Henrichsche Buchhandlung)
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Shisha-Halevy, Ariel
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1986
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Coptic Grammatical Categories: Structural Studies in the Syntax of Shenoutean Sahidic (Analecta Orientalia 53, Roma: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum)
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1988
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Coptic Grammatical Chrestomathy: A Course for Academic and Private Study (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 30, Leuven: Peeters)
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Steindorff, Gerog
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1904
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Koptische Grammatik mit Chrestomatie, Wörteverzeichnis und Litteratur 2ed (Porta Linguarum Orientalium 14, Berlin: Reuther un Reichard; 1ed 1894)
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1921
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Kurzer Abriss der Koptischen Grammatik: mit Lesestücken und Wörterverzeichnis (Berlin: Reuther & Reichard)
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1951
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Lehrbuch der Koptischen Grammatik (Chicago: University of Chicago)
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Stern, Ludwig
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1880
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Koptische Grammatik (Leipzip: Weigel)
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Tattam, Henry
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1863
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A Compendious Grammar of the Egyptian Language 2ed rev (London: Arch; 1ed 1830)
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Till, Walter C.
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1928
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Achmîmisch-Koptische Grammatik mit Chrestomatie und Wörterbuch (Leipziz: Hinrichs)
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1961a
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Koptische Dialektgrammatik mit Lesestücken und Wörterbuch 2ed (Munich: Beck; 1ed 1931)
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1961b
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Koptische Grammatik (Saïdischer Dialekt) mit Bibliographie, Lesetücken und Wörterverzeichnissen 2ed (Lehrbücher für das Stadium der Orientalischen Sprachen 1, Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz; 1ed 1955)
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Tuki, Raphael
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1778
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Rudimenta Linguae Coptae Sive Aegypticae (Rome: 1778)
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Uhlemann, Maximilian A.
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1853
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Linguae Copticae Grammatica (Leipzig: Weigel)
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Valperga Di Caluso, Tommaso
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1783
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Didymi Taurinensis Literaturae Copticae Rudamentum (Parma)
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Vergote, Jozef
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1973a
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Grammaire Copte. Ia. Introduction, Phonétique et Phonologie, Morphologie Synthématique (Structure des Sémantèmes). Partie Synchronique (Leuven: Peeters)
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1973b
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Grammaire Copte. Ib. Introduction, Phonétique et Phonologie, Morphologie Synthématique (Structure des Sémantèmes). Partie Diachronique (Leuven: Peeters)
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1983a
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Grammaire Copte. IIa. Morphologie Syntagmatique. Syntaxe. Partie Synchronique (Leuven: Peeters)
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1983b
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Vergote, Jozef. Grammaire Copte. IIb. Morphologie Syntagmatique. Partie Diachronique (Leuven: Peeters)
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Walters, Clifford C.
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1999
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An Elementary Coptic Grammar of the Sahidic Dialect 2ed (Aris & Phillips, 1ed 1972)
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Wilson, Marvin R.
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1970
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Coptic Future Tenses: Syntactical Studies in Sahidic (Janua Linguarum – Series Practica 64, The Hague: Mouton)
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Younan, Sameh
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2005
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So, You Want To Learn Coptic? A guide to Bohairic Grammar (Sydney: St.Mary, St.Bakhomious and St.Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church)
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Dictionaries and lexicons
For a discussion of the first Coptic dictionaries written, see Hamilton, Alastair. “Grammars, Dictionaries, and Dialects” pp. 229-249. The Copts and the West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); Preview the book here. An overview of early earliest Coptic dictionaries is supplied in the a review of the first part of Crum's dictionary, available through JSTOR.
The most comprehensive dictionary is Walter E Crum's A Coptic Dictionary (1963), which is now available on the internet. Smith's (1999) Coptic-English lexicon is a far smaller and easier to use resource of the Sahidic dialect. A good Coptic-English dictionary of the Bohairic dialect is that of Makar (2001). Forster's (2002) dictionary of Greek words found in Coptic documents is useful as Crum's dictionary does not include Coptic words of Greek origin.
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Azevedo, Joaquim
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2001
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A Simplified Coptic Dictionary: Sahidic Dialect (Centro Pesquisa de Literatura Biblica Publication Series: Tools for Exegesis 1, Cachoeira: Seminario Adventista Latino-Americano)
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Černy, Jaroslav
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1976
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Coptic Etymological Dictionary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
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Crum, Walter E.
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1939
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A Coptic Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
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Förster, Hans
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2002
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Wörterbuch der griechischen Wörter in den koptischen dokumentarischen Texten (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 148, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter)
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Kasser, Rodolphe
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1964
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Compléments au Dictionnaire Copte de Crum (Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Cairo: 1964)
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Kircher, Athanasius
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1664
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Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta (Rome)
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Labib, Claudius
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1895-1915
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ⲡⲓⲗⲉⲝⲓⲕⲟⲛ ⲛ̀ϯⲁⲥⲡⲓ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ (The Lexicon of the Language of the Egyptians, Cairo)
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La Croze, Maturin V., Scholtz, Christianus & Woide, Carolus G.
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1775
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Lexicon Aegyptiaco-Latinum (Oxford)
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Makar, Adeeb B.
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2001
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The Abbreviated Coptic-English Dictionary (San Francisco Bay: St. Antonius Coptic Orthodox Church)
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Metzger, Bruce M.
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1961
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A List of Words Occuring Frequently in the Coptic New Testament (Sahidic Dialect) (Leiden: EJ Brill)
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Parthey, Gustav
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1844
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Vocabularium Coptico-Latinum et Latino-Copticum (Berlin)
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Peyron, Vittorio A.
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1835
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Lexicon Linguae Copticae (Turin)
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1896
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Auctarium ad Peyronis Lexicon Copticum (Berlin)
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Rossi, Giovanni B.
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1808
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Etymologiae Aegyptiacae (Rome)
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Smith, Richard
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1999
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A Concise Coptic-English Lexicon 2ed (Atlanta: Scholars' Press; 1ed 1983)
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Spiegelberg, Wilhelm
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1921
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Koptisches Handwörterbuch (Heidelberg)
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Tattam, Henry
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1835
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Lexicon Aegyptiaco-Latinum (Oxford)
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Vycichl, Werner
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1983
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Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte (Louvain: Peeters)
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Westendorf, Wolfhart
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1965 -1977
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Koptisches Handwörterbuch (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag)
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Coptic script
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Gessman, Albert M.
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1976
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The Birth of the Coptic Script. University of South Florida Language Quarterly 14 2-3
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