• contains Coptic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Coptic letters. The Coptic script is...
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  • Sudan and Libya Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century Coptic script, the script used for writing...
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    accessed 11 November 2020. Quack (2017). "How the Coptic Script Came About". Greek Influence on Egyptian-Coptic: Contact-Induced Change in an Ancient African...
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    Demotic Egyptian script. The major Coptic dialects are Sahidic, Bohairic, Akhmimic, Fayyumic, Lycopolitan, and Oxyrhynchite. Sahidic Coptic was spoken between...
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    article contains Coptic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Coptic letters. The Egyptian...
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    Copts (redirect from Coptic Christian)
    contains Coptic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Coptic letters. Copts (Coptic: ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ...
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    Coptic art is the Christian art of the Byzantine-Greco-Roman Egypt and of Coptic Christian Churches. Coptic art is best known for its wall-paintings,...
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    Old Coptic is the earliest stage of Coptic writing, a form of late Egyptian written in Coptic script, a variant of the Greek alphabet. It "is an analytical...
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    Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style for Coptic and Nobiin. Early uncial script most likely developed from late rustic capitals. Early forms...
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    contains Coptic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Coptic letters. The Coptic Orthodox...
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    Christian minority in Egypt, in which Muslim adherents form the majority. Coptic Christians lost their majority status in Egypt after the 14th century and...
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    some form of the Coptic language (the direct descendant of Ancient Egyptian), although it had few similarities with the later Coptic script. French Orientalist...
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    hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, ceased to be understood in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, as the Coptic alphabet was increasingly used in...
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    for the Coptic practice of direct transliteration of their texts from Coptic script to Arabic script.) The code U+0261 ɡ LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G in the...
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    were replaced by Byzantine Greek, Coptic, and Old Nubian. The Old Nubian script, derived from the Uncial Greek script, added three Meroitic Cursive letters:...
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    Latin and Tifinagh scripts, has political connotations Tuareg language, (sometimes called Tamasheq) which is also a Berber language Coptic language of Egyptians...
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    list of Old French words and phrases written in Coptic script with their Arabic equivalents in Arabic script. There are 228 lemmata. The great majority are...
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    educated class to revive their cultural heritage. In the 4th century, Coptic script—based on the Greek alphabet with additional characters from Egyptian...
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    Copts written in Arabic. It is distinct from Coptic literature, which is literature written in the Coptic language. Copto-Arabic literature began in the...
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    The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the...
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    Coptic literature is the body of writings in the Coptic language of Egypt, the last stage of the indigenous Egyptian language. It is written in the Coptic...
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  • unrelated letter Ч is used instead of the former. Similarly, in the Coptic script, the identical-looking sign ϥ is also used as a numeral for 90, although...
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  • Greek alphabet (redirect from Greek script)
    Greek alphabet is the ancestor of several scripts, such as the Latin, Gothic, Coptic, and Cyrillic scripts. Throughout antiquity, Greek had only a single...
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    uncommon Unicode characters in this article correctly. The Caucasian Albanian script was an alphabetic writing system used by the Caucasian Albanians, one of...
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    letters, the oldest testimony of a development which would end in the Coptic script replacing the native Egyptian demotic. A war elephant named Herwennefer...
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    The Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It...
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  • (Orkhon) scripts, all now moved to Segoe UI Historic. It later gained support for Meroitic Cursive (now moved to Segoe UI Historic) and Coptic script (found...
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  • the following blocks are classified as belonging to the Greek script: Greek and Coptic: U+0370–U+03FF (117 characters) Phonetic Extensions: U+1D00–U+1D7F...
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    Geʽez (Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, romanized: Gəʽəz, IPA: [ˈɡɨʕɨz] ) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages...
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    man dressed in traditional Coptic dress holding a cane and a book. The piece also includes sporadic Arabic and Coptic script typical of Yuhanna and Ibrahims...
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