Home›Open Questions›What sounds did the Coptic letters janja and kyima write?Open QuestionsWhat sounds did the Coptic letters janja and kyima write?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What sounds did the Coptic letters janja and kyima write?." Accessed September 1, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-sounds-did-the-coptic-letters-janja-and-kyima-write.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What sounds did the Coptic letters janja and kyima write?. Retrieved September 1, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-sounds-did-the-coptic-letters-janja-and-kyima-writeCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-sounds-did-the-coptic-letters-janja, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What sounds did the Coptic letters janja and kyima write?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-sounds-did-the-coptic-letters-janja-and-kyima-write}, note = {Accessed September 1, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionBoth were taken from Demotic to write affricates that Greek could not, and both carry no numeral value, which is settled. Their phonetic values are not. Reconstructions differ between scholars and between the Coptic dialects, and the evidence is indirect, resting on transcriptions of Coptic words into other scripts and on comparison with earlier stages of Egyptian.What would resolve this A systematic collection of Coptic words transcribed into Greek and into Arabic, set against the dialect distribution of the two letters and against the Demotic signs they descend from. Camps exist on this question, so what would resolve it is evidence that discriminates between them rather than a further reading of the same material.OpenCoptic phonology and Egyptian historical linguisticsDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First EditionCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnJanja ϫ, Alphabet Letters Well-attested Source Divinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Editiontier 1Kyima ϭ, Alphabet Letters Open question What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43324 already named both janja and kyima in its own title; this edge extends the existing question to kyima rather than inventing a second one.SourcesDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Editiontier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year