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As a written language, Coptic is thought to have completely given way to Arabic around the 13th century, [20] though it seems to have survived as a spoken language until the 17th century [2] and in some localities even longer. [note 1] From the medieval period, there is one known example of tarsh-printed Coptic.
The Gospel of the Saviour is an example of an apocryphal text composed in Coptic after the Council of Chalcedon (451). [28] Examples of Old Testament apocrypha in Coptic include Wisdom of Solomon, Testament of Abraham, Testament of Isaac, Testament of Jacob, Ascension of Isaiah, Apocalypse of Moses, Apocalypse of Elijah and Apocalypse of Zephaniah.
The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language, the most recent development of Egyptian. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the uncial Greek alphabet, augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic. It was the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian language.
The following is an example of Egyptian Greek language, used in the Coptic Church: ... Dialects of the Coptic language: Sahidic: Theban or Upper Egyptian.
Bohairic is a dialect of the Coptic language, the latest stage of the Egyptian language. Bohairic is attested from the eighth century CE, and has been the chief liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church since the eleventh century.
The Coptic language is a universal language used in Coptic churches in every country. It descends from Ancient Egyptian and uses the Coptic alphabet , a script descended from the Greek alphabet with added characters derived from the Demotic script .
Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century; Coptic script, the script used for writing the Coptic language, encoded in Unicode as: Greek and Coptic (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters for writing the Coptic language, from which Coptic was disunified in Unicode 4.1
There have been many Coptic versions of the Bible, including some of the earliest translations into any language.Several different versions were made in the ancient world, with different editions of the Old and New Testament in five of the dialects of Coptic: Bohairic (northern), Fayyumic, Sahidic (southern), Akhmimic and Mesokemic (middle).