symbols instead of Coptic letters. The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language, the most recent development of Egyptian. The repertoire...

accessed 11 November 2020. Quack (2017). "How the Coptic Script Came About". Greek Influence on Egyptian-Coptic: Contact-Induced Change in an Ancient African...

Egyptian script. The major Coptic dialects are Sahidic, Bohairic, Akhmimic, Fayyumic, Lycopolitan (Asyutic), and Oxyrhynchite. Sahidic Coptic was spoken...

Coptic art is the Christian art of the Byzantine-Greco-Roman Egypt and of Coptic Christian Churches. Coptic art is best known for its wall-paintings,...

article contains Coptic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Coptic letters. The Egyptian...

Old Coptic is the earliest stage of Coptic writing, a form of late Egyptian written in the Coptic script, a variant of the Greek alphabet. It "is an analytical...

Coptic identity is rooted in the long history of the Copts as a significant Christian minority in Egypt, where Muslims form the majority. Copts lost their...

Sudan and Libya Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century Coptic script, the script used for writing...

contains Coptic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Coptic letters. The Coptic Orthodox...

contains Coptic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Coptic letters. Copts (Coptic: ⲚⲓⲢⲉⲙ̀ⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ...

Bohairic is a dialect of the Coptic language, the latest stage of the Egyptian language. Bohairic is attested from the eighth century CE, and has been...

Coptic literature is the body of writings in the Coptic language of Egypt, the last stage of the indigenous Egyptian language. It is written in the Coptic...

Greek alphabet is the ancestor of several scripts, such as the Latin, Gothic, Coptic, and Cyrillic scripts. Throughout antiquity, Greek had only a single...

Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style for Coptic and Nobiin. Early uncial script most likely developed from late rustic capitals. Early forms...

were replaced by Byzantine Greek, Coptic, and Old Nubian. The Old Nubian script, derived from the Uncial Greek script, added three Meroitic Cursive letters:...

some form of the Coptic language (the direct descendant of Ancient Egyptian), although it had few similarities with the later Coptic script. French Orientalist...

hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, ceased to be understood in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, as the Coptic alphabet was increasingly used in...

Latin and Tifinagh scripts, has political connotations Tuareg language, (sometimes called Tamasheq) which is also a Berber language Coptic language of Egyptians...

Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ , /sə-/ sih-RILL-ik, sə-) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in...

the script in central Egypt (near the modern city of Qena) in the early 2nd millennium BC. The Greek alphabet was adapted in Egypt to the Coptic alphabet...

Geʽez (/ˈɡiːɛz/ GEE-ez; Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, romanized: Gəʽəz, IPA: [ˈɡɨʕɨz] ) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan...

Copts written in Arabic. It is distinct from Coptic literature, which is literature written in the Coptic language. Copto-Arabic literature began in the...

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the...

educated class to revive their cultural heritage. In the 4th century, Coptic script—based on the Greek alphabet with additional characters from Egyptian...

for the Coptic practice of direct transliteration of their texts from Coptic script to Arabic script.) The code U+0261 ɡ LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G in the...

unrelated letter Ч is used instead of the former. Similarly, in the Coptic script, the identical-looking sign ϥ is also used as a numeral for 90, although...

list of Old French words and phrases written in Coptic script with their Arabic equivalents in Arabic script. There are 228 lemmata. The great majority are...

letters, the oldest testimony of a development which would end in the Coptic script replacing the native Egyptian demotic. A war elephant named Herwennefer...

The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is a non-canonical sayings gospel. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945...

the following blocks are classified as belonging to the Greek script: Greek and Coptic: U+0370–U+03FF (117 characters) Phonetic Extensions: U+1D00–U+1D7F...