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**HRS1H7gO** · 01-04-2007, 02:05 AM

Originally posted by Hueij

Sorry, but nonsense. Coptic is a dead language for over a thousand years now. It is used in the Coptic Church the same way Latin is used in Roman Catholic masses.
Latin of course was used for secular cultural purposes right up through the late 17th century (and was THE written language of western europe during the middle ages)

Similarly Hebrew, though often considered a liturgical language, was widely used for purposes ranging from science to romantic poetry in the middle ages, and to a lesser extent, iiuc, in the early modern era, before its revival in the early 19th c by the Haskalah (enlightenment) movement.

I wonder if Coptic was also used for secular purposes while being "dead" even if not for day to day speech.

01-04-2007, 02:05 AM	#9
HRS1H7gO Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 459 Senior Member	Originally posted by Hueij Sorry, but nonsense. Coptic is a dead language for over a thousand years now. It is used in the Coptic Church the same way Latin is used in Roman Catholic masses. Latin of course was used for secular cultural purposes right up through the late 17th century (and was THE written language of western europe during the middle ages) Similarly Hebrew, though often considered a liturgical language, was widely used for purposes ranging from science to romantic poetry in the middle ages, and to a lesser extent, iiuc, in the early modern era, before its revival in the early 19th c by the Haskalah (enlightenment) movement. I wonder if Coptic was also used for secular purposes while being "dead" even if not for day to day speech.
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