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date: 14 February 2025

Coptic languagelocked

Coptic languagelocked

  • T. G. Wilfong

Summary

Coptic is the latest phase of the ancient Egyptian language, written in an alphabet partly derived from Greek and incorporating Greek vocabulary. Strongly associated with Christianity in Egypt, Coptic preserves a wide range of original and translated Christian literature as well as an important body of documentary texts of the later Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic periods.

Subjects

  • Linguistics

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