Bashmūric
dialect
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Bashmuri is a dialect of the Coptic language, which represents the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language. Coptic was written using the Greek alphabet, with some additions from demotic writing, and incorporated Greek religious terms. While Coptic is generally divided into six dialects, Bashmuri is one of the two spoken in Lower Egypt. Little is known about the Bashmuri dialect, as only a few glosses (brief explanations or annotations) of it still exist.1
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