#kumat

Mummur

Mummy Pokémon

Ghost/Sound Type

Legends say that these Pokémon are the souls of those who passed on too soon. Mummur hides behind its wrappings because it doesn't like how it looks underneath. It nullifies all sound around it so no one can hear it crying.

This is another Pokémon from my ancient Egyptian-based region, Kumat. I forgot how depressing I made the Pokédex entry, oops. But don't worry, it gets happier when it evolves.

Ra : ⲣⲏ (Rē)

Horus: ϩⲱⲣ (hōr)

Osiris: ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ (ousīri)

Bastet: ⲟⲩⲃⲁⲥϯ (oubasti)

Amun: ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ (amoun)

Thoth: ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ (Tʰōwt)

Sobek: ⲥⲟⲩⲕ (souk)

Sekhmet: ⲥⲁϧⲙⲓ (Sakhmi)

Khepri: ϣⲱⲡⲓ (shōpi)

Anubis: ⲁⲛⲟⲩⲡ (anoup)

Isis: ⲏⲥⲉ (ēse)

Ptah: ⲡⲧⲁϩ (ptah)

Hathor: ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ (hatʰōr)

Atum: ⲁⲧⲟⲩⲙ (atoum)

Nut: ⲛⲉ (ne)

Maat: ⲙⲉⲓ (mei)

Taweret: ⲑⲟⲩⲏⲣⲓ (Tʰwēri)

Ah: ⲓⲟϩ (yoh)

Aten: ⲓⲱⲓⲧ (yōit)

Geb: ⲕⲏⲃ (kēb)

Scrolltergeist

Scroll Pokémon

Ghost Type

Thousands of years ago, there was a great library in the Kumat Region that burned to the ground. These Pokémon are said to be the spirits of the scribes who perished in that fire.

Kumat is a fan region I'm working on that's based on ancient Egypt. The idea for Scrolltergeist came from Julius Caesar's supposedly unintentional burning of tens of thousands of scrolls from the Library of Alexandria.

Names of animals and birds in Coptic

Okay so that’s a good question. It all started in the 3rd century BC when Egyptian priests started using Greek letters to write down medical spells for other Greeks since they could not read Egyptian correctly due to the non-existence of vowels in pre-coptic writing systems.

This Coptic (Greek) writing system started spreading more among Egyptians who converted to christianity due to the hellenization and Christianization processes in the country. Plus they started using it more than older Egyptian writing systems (hieroglyphs, demotic, etc..) since those writing systems have pre-christian pagan origins, but Koine greek was the language of the New Testament so it all adds up to why Egyptians started using Coptic instead of older systems of writing.

Now the question is, does that mean that coptic is Greek? The short answer is no. Otherwise, we’d consider English a Roman language, or Russian a Greek one considering that its Cyrillic alphabet was also heavily influenced by Greek. Of course the same goes with other languages like Swahili, Xhosa, Zulu, Vietnamese, Farsi and Urdu, etc.. in which they collectively borrowed their letters from other languages.