^科普特语(作为生活用语)可能在此之后仍旧生存在进入19世纪时上埃及孤立的局部地区,根据詹姆士·爱德华·奎贝尔(James Edward Quibell),《科普特语何时消亡》(When did Coptic become extinct?),于:Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde,39(1901年),(页87)。
^原文:"...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia.",出自Archaeology Magazine(1999),见英文版维基百科。
Wolfgang Schenkel: Glottalisierte Verschlußlaute, glottaler Verschlußlaut und ein pharyngaler Reibelaut im Koptischen, Rückschlüsse aus den ägyptisch-koptischen Lehnwörtern und Ortsnamen im Ägyptisch-Arabischen. In: Lingua Aegyptia 10, 2002. S. 1-57 ISSN 0942-5659. S. 31 ff.
another interpretation is suggested by Christopher Ehret: Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary. University of California Publications in Linguistics 126, California, Berkeley 1996. ISBN 0-520-09799-8
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