Abstract
“Notes on the Coptic dialect H” - The sole witness of the little-known Coptic dialect H still remains unpublished, but quite a bit of information is nevertheless scattered in various published sources and is assembled here, including a glossary of almost 600 lexical items provided at the end of this paper. The evidence of lexical and morphological isoglosses shows that H does not belong to the Fayyumic dialect cluster, as has been suggested, but must be considered a late, vulgar offshoot of Sahidic, possibly of a northern subvariety of Sahidic. A number of sound laws and morphological issues are discussed, which also bear on the understanding of Coptic dialects other than H.
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