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Preferred term

copCoptic  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Coptic or Coptic Egyptian ( Met Remenkēmi) is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century. The new writing system became the Coptic script, an adapted Greek alphabet with the addition of six or seven signs from the demotic script to represent Egyptian sounds the Greek language did not have. Several distinct Coptic dialects are identified, the most prominent of which are Sahidic and Bohairic.

Entry terms

  • Coptic language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • cop

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • cop

ISO 639-3 code

  • cop

Notation

  • cop

In other languages

  • Copte

    French

  • copte
  • Koptisch

    German

  • Koptische Sprache
  • copto

    Italian

  • Lingua copta
  • Portuguese

  • Língua copta
  • copto

    Spanish

  • Idioma copto

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/cop

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