Coptic or Coptic Egyptian ( Met.Remenkīmi) is the final stage of the
Egyptian language, a northern
Afro-Asiatic language spoken in
Egypt until at least the seventeenth century CE. Egyptian began to be written using the
Greek alphabet in the first century CE. The new writing system became the
Coptic script, an adapted Greek alphabet with the addition of six to seven signs from the
demotic script to represent Egyptian
phonemes absent from
Greek. Several distinct Coptic dialects are identified, the most prominent of which are Sahidic and Bohairic.
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