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Until the 10th century, Coptic remained the spoken language of the native population outside the capital. The Coptic language massively declined under the hands of Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, as part of his campaigns of religious persecution. He issued strict orders completely prohibiting the use of Coptic anywhere, whether in schools ...
Coptic is not generally used today except by the members of the Coptic Orthodox Church to write their religious texts. All the Gnostic codices found at Nag Hammadi used the Coptic script. The Old Nubian alphabet—used to write Old Nubian , a Nilo-Saharan language —is an uncial variant of the Coptic script, with additional characters borrowed ...
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.
Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta (Egyptian Language Restored) [1] was a 1643 work about the Coptic language by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It followed his 1636 volume Prodromus Coptus sive Aegyptiacus (The Coptic or Egyptian Forerunner), the first ever published grammar of Coptic.
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
Coptic seems to have been in decline as a literary language by the early 9th century, since few original works later than that can be attributed to a named author. [1] For reasons not fully understood, it was moribund as a language of original composition by the 11th century. [3] Much Coptic literature is now lost, as the Copts began to use Arabic.
The British Library Coptic Language Collection is a collection of about 1600 manuscripts in the Coptic language dating from 350 to 2000 AD. The collection was one of the first to reach Europe, and the texts are written on papyrus, leather, vellum and paper. The British Library also holds a collection of about 1500 printed books and serials in ...
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