Language/Coptic
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Facts about Coptic
Coptic is a family of closely-related dialects descended from the Ancient Egyptian language and historically spoken by the Copts of Egypt. Coptic was supplanted by Egyptian Arabic as the primary spoken language of Egypt following the Muslim conquest of Egypt, although it remains in use today as the liturgical language of the Coptic Church. It is written with the Coptic alphabet, a modified form of the Greek alphabet with several additional letters borrowed from the Demotic Egyptian script.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_language
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
cop
- Autonyms (how to write "Coptic" in Coptic):
ϯⲙⲉⲑⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ / ⲧⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲣⲙ̄ⲛ̄ⲕⲏⲙⲉ
- Other names for "Coptic":
Neo-Egyptian
- The Coptic language is spoken in:
Egypt
Coptic Dictionaries
• Vocabularium coptico-latinum: Coptic-Latin dictionary by Gustav Parthey (1844)
• Peyronis lexicon copticum, Lexikon linguæ copticæ: Coptic-Latin dictionary by Amedeo Peyron (1896)
• Lexicon ægyptiaco-latinum: Coptic-Latin dictionary by Mathurin Veyssière de Lacroze & Charles Godfrey Woide (1775)
• Lingua ægyptiaca restituta: Coptic-Latin-Arabic dictionary by Athanasius Kircher (1643)
• Coptic loanwords of Egyptian Arabic by Federico Corriente, in Collectanea Christiana Orientalia (2008)