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		N E T The Coptic Alphabet ------------------- The language that was spoken in Egypt at all times and until nearly the end of the ninth century A.D. (250 years after the Arab's conquest of Egypt) was the Egyptian language with many dialects thereof.
		The gradual replacement of Hieroglyphic by Demotic is similar to the replacement of Latin by English French, Italian, etc. Coptic is the common colloquial Egyptian.
		The Coptic Language makes use of abbreviations as well, especially with words that are used frequently.
	www.coptic.net /articles/CopticAlphabet.txt (732 words)

	Ancient Near East .Net - Coptic Language
		Although extinct as a spoken language, Coptic is nonetheless retained as a liturgical tongue within the Coptic Orthodox Church and preserves a rich heritage of written documents from the ancient and medieval periods.
		The retained knowledge of Coptic was essential to the linguistic analysis of the ancient Egyptian language in its earlier phases and for the nineteenth century decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic script.
		Sahidic was firmly established as the standard literary dialect of Coptic by the 4th century CE (being employed within the first official translation of the Bible) and maintained its preeminence until its replacement by the Bohairic dialect in the 10th to 11th centuries CE.
	www.ancientneareast.net /coptic/coptic.html (683 words)

	Coptic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Coptic alphabet is an alphabet used for writing the Coptic language.
		By the 4th century the Coptic alphabet was "standardised", particularly for the Sahidic dialect.
		Coptic Fonts Standard; a movement of Coptic Christians to standardize ASCII-based Coptic computer typefaces with a long term goal of designing Coptic Unicode fonts after disunification with the Greek block.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coptic_alphabet (613 words)

	Kopteg - Wikipedia
		Coptic uses a writing system almost wholly derived from the Greek alphabet, with the addition of a number of additional letters—six in the case of Sahidic—that have their origins in Demotic.
		Coptic was predominantly used from its Christian beginnings in the late 2nd century till the time of the Great persecution of Diocletian in the late 3rd century as a translational tool from Greek to Egyptian.
		Coptic continued its growth in the Church and among the Ecclesiastically-educated groups that were produced in the early parts of the 20th century.
	br.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kopteg (1930 words)

	Coptic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coptic uses a writing system almost wholly derived from the Greek alphabet, with the addition of a number of additional letters—six in the case of Sahidic—that have their origins in Demotic Egyptian.
		Coptic continued to be used in the Church with Greek as the second language, as seen from the texts that survived from the period.
		The only Coptic literary texts composed in the later part of the period were the martyrdom of Saint John of Phanidijoit, written as such to shield from the eyes of the Muslims, and compositions, urging the Copts to revive their language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coptic_language (3167 words)

	Coptic language
		Coptic is the last historic branch of the Egyptian language and has elements of Greek and Semitic languages.
		Coptic uses the Greek alphabet, but has added 7 letters from Demotic script, the ancient popular Egyptian script, for special sounds.
		Coptic is used in liturgical contexts and there is also some education current education using it in Egyptian schools.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/coptic_l.htm (95 words)

	Saint George Church Sporting Alexandria Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Coptic language is the last phase in the evolution of the language of the ancient Egyptians.
		As that alphabet could not cope with all the native sounds, they adopted the last seven additional letters of the Coptic alphabet from their original Demotic script.
		Coptic persisted as a spoken and liturgical language until the thirteenth century, which was marked by a number of native scholars who composed Coptic grammar in Arabic, as well as Arabic-Coptic dictionaries to help in the preservation of the language.
	www.stgeorge-sporting.org /coptic/thecopticlang.htm (359 words)

	The Coptic Language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Steven Margulies writes: "The Coptic alphabet came about after the Greek conquest of Egypt in the 3rd Century BC and is still in use by the Coptic Church in their religious works.
		The Coptic alphabet is based on the Greek letter form, but has additional letters for sounds used in the Demotic (ancient Egyptian) not found in the Greek, so Coptic appears to be an off-shoot of the two (Demotic and Greek).
		Coptic Christianity is synonymous with Alexandria, but several religious debates have created standing rifts among the faithful, and there are two Popes in Alexandria today as a result; Pope Shenouda III is the Coptic Orthodox Pope •Pope Boutros VII is the Greek Orthodox Pope".
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Language/language_copticlang51203.html (174 words)

	Church of Alexandria (Coptic) - OrthodoxWiki
		The Coptic Orthodox Church is the portion of the Church of Alexandria which broke from the Byzantine churches in the wake of the Fourth Ecumenical Council in Chalcedon in 451.
		The Coptic Church regards itself as having never believed in monophysitism the way it was portrayed in the Council of Chalcedon, but rather as having always believed in miaphysitism (a doctrine that Oriental Orthodox Churches regard as correct and orthodox).
		The Coptic Church regarded that the ousting of Pope Dioscorus of Alexandria in the council of Chalcedon was in part due to the rivalry between the Bishops of Alexandria and Rome.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Church_of_Alexandria_(Coptic) (2569 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Coptic alphabet
		By the 4th century the Coptic alphabet was "standardised", particularly for the Sahidic dialect.
		Revised proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS — Rare charts showing derivation of the added letters from Demotic are on pp.7 and 8 of this document.
		Coptic Fonts Standard; a movement of Coptic Christians to standardize ASCII-based Coptic computer typefaces with a long term goal of designing Coptic Unicode fonts after disunification with the Greek block.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Coptic_alphabet (625 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Language
		The Coptic alphabet is a slightly modified form of the Greek alphabet, with some letters (which vary from dialect to dialect) deriving from demotic.
		Coptic Egyptian appeared in the fourth century AD and survived as a living language until the sixteenth century AD, when European scholars traveled to Egypt to learn it from native speakers during the Renaissance.
		Coptic is written using the Coptic alphabet, a modified form of the Greek alphabet with a number of symbols borrowed from Demotic for sounds that did not occur in Ancient Greek.
	www.crystalinks.com /egyptlanguage.html (1528 words)

	Coptic Language & Alphabets
		The dialect of the Nile delta, and considered the dialect of the Coptic Church.
		Alphabets and syllabary in Greek and Coptic (P.Duk.inv.
		Stephanos, a Christian priest from Lenaios in the Antinoites (Antinoite Nome) is brought forward by the jailor Hierax and subsequently interrogated by the praeses.
	www.cezwright.com /books/coptic (376 words)

	Alphabet - Babel Babble - UniLang
		The Coptic alphabet is used for writing the Coptic language (a later form of Egyptian), and it was created during the 3rd century BC, after the Greek conquest of Egypt.
		By the fourth century, the Coptic alphabet was standardized, although there are some differences in the alphabets between the different dialects of Coptic.
		The Coptic alphabet was later "borrowed" by the Nubian Church, which added more letters and adapted it for the local language of Nubia.
	home.unilang.org /bb/index.php?n=21&t=4 (589 words)

	New St. Antonius
		As that alphabet could not cope with all the native sounds, they adopted the last seven additional letters of the Coptic alphabet from their original Demotic script.
		Coptic persisted as a spoken and liturgical language until the thirteenth century, which was marked by a number of native scholars who composed Coptic grammar in Arabic, as well as Arabic-Coptic dictionaries to help in the preservation of the language
		The Coptic Church is a deeply spiritual and conservative Church who does not want to change any of the doctrines or rituals as handed down to her by the founding fathers of the Church in the early centuries of Christianity.
	www.antonius.org /articles/009.php (6464 words)

	Greek alphabet Information
		It was the first alphabet in the narrow sense, that is, a writing system using a separate symbol for each vowel and consonant alike.
		The Greek alphabet originated as a modification of the Phoenician alphabet and in turn gave rise to the Gothic, Glagolitic, Cyrillic, Coptic, and possibly the Armenian alphabets, as well as the Latin alphabet, as documented in History of the alphabet.
		The Coptic alphabet is the Greek alphabet, augmented with several new letters derived from Demotic, and it is still used today.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Greek_alphabet (2180 words)

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		As that alphabet could not cope with all the native sounds, they adopted the last seven additional letters of the Coptic alphabet from their original Demotic script.
		Coptic persisted as a spoken and liturgical language until the thirteenth century, which was marked by a number of native scholars who composed Coptic grammar in Arabic, as well as Arabic-Coptic dictionaries to help in the preservation of the language
		The Coptic Church is a deeply spiritual and conservative Church who does not want to change any of the doctrines or rituals as handed down to her by the founding fathers of the Church in the early centuries of Christianity.
	www.archangelmichaelchurch.net /Home/Who_are_copts/Coptic_church_ofEgypt.htm (6435 words)

	CTAN: directory: /tex-archive/language/coptic/cbcoptic
		Coptic fonts and LaTeX macros for general usage and for philology.
		Edit the latter file by adding this line: coptic copthyph.tex (I suggest to place it in alphabetical order) Put the .mf files in.../fonts/source/local/coptic; put the .tfm files in.../fonts/tfm/local/coptic; put the .pfb files in.../fonts/type1/local/coptic; put the .sty and *.fd files, testcop.tex and testcopOK.pdf in.../tex/latex/local/coptic; if you like the idea you can save this file README in.../doc/tex/latex/local/coptic.
		When the Coptic language is invoked only its alphabet and its hyphenation rules are used, but it is not the same as specifying a coptic option to the babel package; this means that commands such as \selectlanguage{coptic} DO NOT WORK.
	www.ctan.org /tex-archive/language/coptic/cbcoptic/?D=A (2009 words)

	Coptic alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The Coptic alphabet is variant of the Greek alphabet containing a number of extra letters for sounds not found in Greek.
		The Coptic alphabet came into being during the 3rd century BC after the Greek conquest of Egypt and the subsequent spread of Christianity.
		Coptic, a member of the Egyptian branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family and a descendant of the Ancient Egyptian language.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/coptic.htm (212 words)

	Coptic language and culture
		FROM WIKIPEDIA The Coptic language is the last phase of the Egyptian languages, and is the direct descendant of the ancient Egyptian language written in the hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts.
		The Coptic alphabet is written in a slightly modified form of the Greek alphabet, with some letters (which vary from dialect to dialect) deriving directly from demotic.
		The Coptic language is derived from Late Egyptian, though its script is based on the Greek alphabet with the addition of seven Demotic (late Hieroglyphic) characters.
	www.lonweb.org /link-coptic.htm (788 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Coptic
		As the name implies, the Coptic script represented the Egyptian language just as Egyptian hieroglyphics had done for 3000 years before.
		The Coptic script was adopted from the Greek alphabet approximately around the 2nd century CE.
		The Coptic script and the language it represents were restricted to liturgical purposes in the Coptic Orthodox Church.
	www.ancientscripts.com /coptic.html (292 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Travel \| Coptic art steals the show (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Among the documents on display are the letters of the Coptic alphabet.
		"Coptic art is a folkloric art, not a state-sponsored art, as in Pharaonic times," said Gaballa, stressing the importance of Egypt to the three main monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
		On display is a Coptic calendar, which starts from the "Era of the Martyrs" in the third century (an homage to those who died for their faith) and various musical instruments from Antinoe (today's city of Al-Fayoum).
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/484/tr1.htm (910 words)

	Modified Isaac's Transliteration
		Greek alphabet is believed to be a derivation and enhancment of Heiroglyphs that were brought to Ancient Greece by Phoenicians.
		Reinassance marker: Coptic has been dormant for centuries, Pope Cyril IV Father of reform is the initiator of the Reinassance of Coptic Language in 19th Century, this reinassance needs a marker to denote changes allow appearing of new waves in the language.
		Educational deficiency: Coptic language is not taught in schools as it is considered to be a dead language.
	www.coptic.org /language/KTS.html (3872 words)

	St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church - Rochester, NY
		Bohairic dialect in Bohairic pronunciation (B) was the one used by the Coptic Church all over Egypt, due to the availability of its manuscripts that were produced by monks of the desert of Shihat (Natron Valley), and the condition was so for many, many centuries until now.
		Coptic manuscripts transcribing Arabic, in Coptic letters, in other words manuscripts where Arabic is written in Coptic for educational purposes dating as far as 10th Century, where for example theta was always used to describe the letter "taa" and not "thaa"
		The results were shocking to almost all, esp. because it's hard for older Coptic teachers and heads of Coptic institutes to re-learn this pronunciation, so if they admitted it they would have to lose their positions or spend an effort to learn it.
	www.rochcopts.org /BohairicPronunciation.php (1651 words)

	Coptic
		Coptic is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Coptic is an adjective referring to the original inhabitants of Egypt, the Copts.
		The Coptic language is a mixture of ancient Egyptian with Semitic and Greek borrowings; in the inscriptions the older demotic characters were replaced by a Greek alphabet with supplementary letters from the Demotic.
	www.globaloneness.com /coptic (1006 words)

	History & info - various calendars used by smaller groups
		The Ethiopian calendar is based on the Coptic calendar, although it differs with regard to the saint's days and the time of observing them.
		The Coptic, or Egyptian, calendar is 7/8 years behind the Gregorian calendar.
		The Coptic Leap Year follows the same rules as the Gregorian so that the extra month always has 6 days in a Gregorian Leap Year.
	webexhibits.org /calendars/calendar-other.html (1435 words)

	Learn Coptic, Coptic Windows, Coptic Office, Coptic Software, Coptic Dictionary, Coptic Translation, Coptic Keyboards, ...
		Coptic represents the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language, whose familiar hieroglyphic writing dates as far back as 3000 B.C. The word "Copt" is derived from the Greek, and later the Arabic, word for "Egyptian." Coptic is a Hamitic language, constituting one of the branches of the Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) family.
		The transition from Egyptian to Coptic in Egypt may be said to have coincided with the introduction of Christianity.
		The Coptic alphabet consists of thirty-two letters, twenty-five borrowed from the Greek, and seven from Demotic, a later simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Coptic.htm (352 words)

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