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Wikipedia: Coptic or Coptic Egyptian (ⲘⲉⲧⲢⲉⲙ̀ⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ Met Remenkēmi) is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the seventeenth century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the first century. 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 sounds the Greek language did not have.
![[Coptic and Arabic inscriptions in an Old Cairo church.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Coptic_26Arabic_s.jpg "Coptic and Arabic inscriptions in an Old Cairo church.")
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![[8th century Coptic manuscript of Luke 5:5—9]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Coptic_luke_s.jpg "8th century Coptic manuscript of Luke 5:5—9")
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![[5th-6th century Coptic liturgic inscription from Upper Egypt.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Coptic_liturgic_inscription_s.jpg "5th-6th century Coptic liturgic inscription from Upper Egypt.")
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