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$\"\"$ I am grateful to David Mihalyfy for sending me a copy of his recent article, and I want to draw it to the attention of readers who have an interest in the Coptic language.<\/p>\n

The full title of the article is \u201cRE-EXAMINING SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION IN COPTIC: A Case For The Intervocalic And Post-Nasal Allophonic Voicing Of Obstruents.\u201d<\/p>\n

In essence, the argument is that Coptic resembles other languages where one written letter may be used to represent different consonant sounds, the sound being determined by the location in a word and in relation to vowels.<\/p>\n

It is published in Le Mus\u00e9on<\/a>\u00a02012 Vol.125 (3-4), pp.267-306.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"