Coptic pronunciation reform since 1850 has resulted in two major shifts in the use of Bohairic, the dialect of Coptic which is used as the liturgical language of the present-day Coptic Orthodox Church. The two traditions of pronunciation in contemporary use arise from two successive reforms in the 19th and 20th centuries:
- the "reformed pronunciation" or "Greco-Bohairic pronunciation", originally mandated by Pope Cyril IV (1854–1861), models the pronunciation of Coptic letters after their equivalents in Modern Greek.
- the "Old Bohairic pronunciation" aims to reconstruct the pronunciation as it was before this reform.
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