1) Ancient tongue 2) Christian 3) Egyptian church language 4) Extinct language 5) Like some Egyptian churches 6) Liturgical egyptian language 7) Liturgical language 8) Of the Egyptian church
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[Unicode block] Coptic is a Unicode block used with the Greek and Coptic block to write the Coptic language. Prior to version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, Greek and Coptic was used exclusively to write Coptic text, but Greek and Coptic letter forms are contrastive in many scholarly works, necessitating their disunification. Any specifically...
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• (a.) Of or pertaining to the Copts. • (n.) The language of the Copts.
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Cop'tic (kŏp'tĭk)
adjective [ Abbrev. from Latin
Aegyptius an Egyptian, Greek ..., Arabic
kibtī , plural
kibt .] Of or pertaining to the Copts. --
noun The language of the Copts.
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[
adj] - of or relating to the Copts or their church or language or art 2. [n] - the liturgical language of the Coptic Church of Egypt and Ethiopia
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adjective of or relating to the Copts or their church or language or art; `the distinctive Coptic art of 6th-century Christian Egypt`
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a language based on hieroglyphic words and grammar but written in Greek letters. It was important in the decipherment of hieroglyphs because it never went completely out of use and it gave clues as to how the hieroglyphic language had been put together.
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an Afroasiatic language of Egypt descended from ancient Egyptian, largely extinct as a spoken language since the 16th century but surviving as the liturgical language of the Coptic Church.
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