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Bohairic.

The Coptic dialect of the western Nile delta and Alexandria, used as a widespread standard dialect in the second millennium CE

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  1. The Coptic dialect of the western Nile delta and Alexandria, used as a widespread standard dialect in the second millennium CE

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Calque of Arabic بُحَيْرِيّ (buḥayriyy, “Of the Beheira Governate, from around Lake Mareotis”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.

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