Sorry there something in your message appears as ???? ,if you mean Apocti numerals They just the hand-written version of Coptic numerals and they mostly used by Copts in any context of Arabic writing Many centuries before
-----Original Message----- From: RemEnKimi@yahoogroups.com [mailto:RemEnKimi@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bob Offer-Westort Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 6:18 PM To: RemEnKimi@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [RemEnKimi] Numerals: Fai: 90 and 500? Thank you so much! >From this, it appears that ? is used for 500. This makes more sense. It must >be a mistake in Layton's book. Once again, thank you. I had never before heard of ��� �����. Were these used by Arabic-speakers in Egypt before ��� ����? Or are they just the hand-written versions of ��� ����? --- Bob Offer-Westort San Francisco, California, USA On Jan 2, 2013, at 3:55 AM, Magdi abo dokhana wrote: > Hello > attached file shows all figures of numerals in Coptic-Apocti(regular Coptic) > and indian > > -----Original Message----- > From: RemEnKimi@yahoogroups.com [mailto:RemEnKimi@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf > Of Bob Offer-Westort > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 7:16 PM > To: RemEnKimi@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [RemEnKimi] Numerals: Fai: 90 and 500? > > My apologies for posting in English. > > I have been trying to learn Coptic from two English-language textbooks > simultaneously: Thomas O. Lambdin's *Introduction to Sahidic Coptic* and > Bentley Layton's *Coptic in 20 Lessons*. In the latter, I initially skimmed > through the section on numbers, but have now gone back to try to learn them > better. > > I am confused because it appears that the letter fai is used to mean two > different numbers: 90 and 500. Is this correct? > > --- > Bob Offer-Westort > San Francisco, California, USA > > ------------------------------------ > > When in a hurry, consider posting one Coptic sentence per day.Yahoo! Groups > Links > > > <To7fat Elsa2len 02.jpg> ------------------------------------ When in a hurry, consider posting one Coptic sentence per day.Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ When in a hurry, consider posting one Coptic sentence per day.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RemEnKimi/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RemEnKimi/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: remenkimi-dig...@yahoogroups.com remenkimi-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: remenkimi-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
