Concept information
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
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Copte
French
-
copte
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Koptisch
German
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Koptische Sprache
-
copto
Italian
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Lingua copta
-
Portuguese
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Língua copta
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copto
Spanish
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Idioma copto
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/cop
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