Thoth is an AI bot that can explain Ancient Egyptian and Coptic grammar and translate them into English or other major languages; even they can do a transcription of Coptic from a picture of printed texts. Please feel free to ask! Questions: So Miyagawa [miyagawa.so.kb@u.tsukuba.ac.jp]
Examples: (1) “Translate [ink pw inpw]” (2) “How do you say “I worked hard today” in Coptic?” (3) [uploading a screenshot of printed Coptic or romanized Ancient Egyptian text] “Transcribe and translate” [Note: romanization/transliteration of Ancient Egyptian work well but not Egyptian Hieroglyphic Unicode. I want to improve this side more.] (4) “Please tell me the etymology of ⲥⲱⲧⲙ.” [Note: So far, OCR does not work for actual manuscript photos and Hieroglyphs, Hieratics, and Demotics, but only Coptic text and transliterated (romanized) Ancient Egyptian text. OK: rn=j pw wsrkn. / ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲛ ⲡⲉ ⲥⲱ / paran pe sô. Not good: 𓂋𓈖𓀀𓊪𓅱𓍯𓐠𓂋𓎡𓈖𓀀]
WARNINGS: This is an AI that learned Ancient Egyptian–Coptic linguistics to some extent. Please check carefully whether the output is correct or not. Unless it is a casual use, I recommend asking the question to professional Egyptologists / Coptologists instead of this AI app. We can never ever replace professionals with AI at all. Also, you should search at professional databases and corpora such as Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae or Coptic SCRIPTORIUM & Coptic Dictionary Online. Anyway, please be careful with AI hallucinations [-> What are AI hallucinations?]. I can’t guarantee anything about this AI app. But if you encounter a problem or find errors, it is very helpful if you report it to me: miyagawa.so.kb@u.tsukuba.ac.jp . We can improve THOTH together. (I will write a gratitude to you in the acknowlegements or we can write a paper on it together!)
If too many people use THOTH at the same time, it can be temporarily down. Please let me know if you find it is down (e.g. does not answer). –> miyagawa.so.kb@u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Down history: January 23, 2025, 5PM-9PM in EST, ca. four hours
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