Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century Coptic alphabet, the script used for writing the Coptic language, encoded in Unicode as: Greek and Coptic, a block of Unicode characters for writing the Coptic language, from which Coptic was disunified in Unicode 4.1

From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fragment of Coptic book Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is an Egyptian language. It was spoken by many people in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Now, only a few people speak the language. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century.

25 rows · Coptic is a Unicode block used with the Greek and Coptic block to write the Coptic language. Prior to version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, Greek and Coptic was used exclusively to write Coptic text, but Greek and Coptic letter forms are contrastive in many scholarly works, necessitating their disunification.

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.