Abstract
“The homeland of Sahidic”: Almost every region of Egypt has already been suspected to be the original homeland of the Sahidic dialect of Coptic. This paper reviews the various proposals and provides new support for a location in Middle Egypt around Hermopolis. This support comes from localized prosopographical and (to a lesser degree) topographical data, as well as from the hitherto much neglected field of lexical isoglosses or word geography. It is also explained why the evidence of the Sahidic vowel system, which seemed to contradict a Middle Egyptian location, has been misinterpreted in the past.
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