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Coptic alphabet

NameCoptic alphabet
TypeAlphabet
LanguagesCoptic language
Timec. 300 AD to 14th century AD (Still used today in Coptic churches in Egypt and abroad)
Fam1Phoenician and Egyptian hieroglyphs
Fam2Greek and Demotic
SistersOld Nubian
Latin
Cyrillic
Armenian
UnicodeU+2CFF
U+03EF
Iso15924Copt

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The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the Greek alphabet augmented by letters borrowed from the Demotic and is the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian language. There are, in fact, several Coptic alphabets as the Coptic writing system may vary greatly among the various dialects and subdialects of the Coptic language.


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