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Coptic Americans (Coptic: ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲛ̀ⲁⲙⲉⲣⲓⲕⲏ, romanized: niremenkāmi enamerika) are American citizens of Coptic descent or persons of Coptic descent residing in the United States. As of 2018, there were some 500,000 Copts living in the United States.
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.
After 1952, the rate of Coptic immigration from Egypt to the United States increased. The first Coptic church in the United States, St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church, was established in the late 1960s in Jersey City. There are many Coptic Orthodox churches and congregations in the United States.
This category page lists notable citizens of the United States of Coptic Christian descent (full or partial). Pages in category "American people of Coptic descent" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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This was followed by the establishment of the "International Association for Coptic Studies". [2] One of the founders of the Colloquium and the Association was Pahor Labib, director of the Coptic Museum in Cairo during 1951-65. The words 'Coptology' and 'Coptologist' were introduced into the English language by Aziz Suryal Atiya. [3]
A fair percentage of Egyptian Expatriates settled in the US. Almost 70–75% of Egyptian Expatriates holding the membership of the UUEE are Muslims and 25–30% are Coptic. On February 11, 2012, a coalition of American Egyptians from around the United States launched a new advocacy organization, the American Egyptian Strategic Alliance. [12]
By the Roman period, the use of Demotic slowly gave way to the fourth and last stage of development of the Egyptian language, known as Coptic, although the use of Demotic remained until the middle of the fifth century AD [43] Coptic was simply the Egyptian language written mainly in Greek letters, with seven Demotic letters representing sounds ...