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Preferred term

copCoptic  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Coptic or Coptic Egyptian ( Met Remenkēmi) is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century. The new writing system became the Coptic script, an adapted Greek alphabet with the addition of six or seven signs from the demotic script to represent Egyptian sounds the Greek language did not have. Several distinct Coptic dialects are identified, the most prominent of which are Sahidic and Bohairic.

Entry terms

  • Coptic language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • cop

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • cop

ISO 639-3 code

  • cop

In other languages

  • Kopties

    Afrikaans

  • القبطية

    Arabic

  • لغة قبطية
  • Idioma copto

    Aragonese

  • kopt dili

    Azerbaijani

  • Kopt dili
  • কপটিক

    Bangla

  • Копт теле

    Bashkir

  • Koptoera

    Basque

  • копцкая

    Belarusian

  • कॉप्टीक्

    Bodo

  • коптски

    Bosnian

  • kopteg

    Breton

  • коптски

    Bulgarian

  • Коптски език
  • copte

    Catalan

  • Idioma copte
  • 科普特语

    Chinese

  • Копт чĕлхи

    Chuvash

  • koptski

    Croatian

  • Koptski jezik
  • koptština

    Czech

  • Koptština
  • koptisk

    Danish

  • Koptisk
  • Koptisch

    Dutch

  • لغه قبطى

    Egyptian Arabic

  • kopti

    Estonian

  • Finnish

  • Koptin kieli
  • copte

    French

  • Copte
  • coptic

    Friulian

  • Lingua copta

    Galician

  • კოპტური ენა

    Georgian

  • Koptisch

    German

  • Koptische Sprache
  • Κοπτικά

    Greek

  • Κοπτική γλώσσα
  • કોપ્ટિક

    Gujarati

  • קופטית

    Hebrew

  • कॉप्टिक

    Hindi

  • kopt

    Hungarian

  • Kopt nyelv
  • koptíska

    Icelandic

  • Koptíska
  • Koptik

    Indonesian

  • An Choptais

    Irish

  • copto

    Italian

  • Lingua copta
  • コプト語

    Japanese

  • コプト・エジプト語
  • Basa Koptik

    Javanese

  • ಕೊಪ್ಟಿಕ್

    Kannada

  • کاپٹِک

    Kashmiri

  • Копт кыв

    Komi

  • 콥트어

    Korean

  • ຄອບຕິກ

    Lao

  • Lingua Coptica

    Latin

  • koptu

    Latvian

  • koptų

    Lithuanian

  • Koptų kalba
  • коптски

    Macedonian

  • Kopta

    Malagasy

  • കോപ്റ്റിക്

    Malayalam

  • Koptiku

    Maltese

  • Lingwa Kopta
  • कॉप्टिक

    Marathi

  • Koptisk

    Norwegian

  • koptisk

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • koptisk

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • Koptisk språk
  • କପ୍ଟିକ୍

    Odia

  • коптаг

    Ossetic

  • Coptic

    Pampanga

  • قبطی

    Persian

  • زبان قبطی
  • Còptich

    Piedmontese

  • koptyjski

    Polish

  • Język koptyjski
  • copta

    Portuguese

  • Língua copta
  • coptă

    Romanian

  • Limba coptă
  • coptic

    Romansh

  • коптский

    Russian

  • Коптский язык
  • Koptski

    Serbian

  • Koptski jezik

    Serbo-Croatian

  • koptčina

    Slovak

  • koptščina

    Slovenian

  • copto

    Spanish

  • Idioma copto
  • Koptitongo

    Sranan Tongo

  • Swedish

  • Koptiska
  • Koptisch

    Swiss German

  • Koptische Sprache

    Swiss German (France)

  • காப்டிக்

    Tamil

  • కోప్టిక్

    Telugu

  • คอปติก

    Thai

  • lea fakakopitika

    Tongan

  • Kıptice

    Turkish

  • коптська

    Ukrainian

  • Коптська мова
  • Tiếng Coptic

    Vietnamese

  • Copteg

    Welsh

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/cop

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