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Coptic

1. an Afro-Asiatic language, written in the Greek alphabet but descended from ancient Egyptian. It was extinct as a spoken language by about 1600 ad but survives in the Coptic Church

2. of or relating to this language

Coptic

the latest stage of Egyptian, spanning approximately 1,000 years, with an alphabetic writing system. In the llth and 12th centuries it was dying out and was replaced by Arabic. It has survived among Egyptian Christians as a religious language. The five main dialects are Sahidic (literary language of the fourth to llth centuries), Bohairic (used now by the Copts), Sub-Akhmimic, Akhmimic, and Fayumic.

Coptic possesses a well-developed analytical structure. The 23 consonants are voiceless (with and without aspiration) and resonants; only j is voiced. Voicing is replaced by nasal resonance. The basic vowels are ī, ě, ē, ǎ, ǒ, ō and ū Stress is dynamic. The vocabulary contains a considerable number of Greek elements.

REFERENCES

Elanskaia, A. I. Koptskii iazyk. Moscow, 1964.
Morenz, S. “Das Koptische.” In Handbuch der Orientalistik, section 1. Leiden, 1959. Pages 90–104.
Steindorff, G. Lehrbuch der koptischen Grammatik. Chicago, 1951.
Till, W. C. Koptische Grammatik (saidischer Dialekf), 3rd ed. Leipzig, 1966.
Nagel, P. Der Ursprung des Koptischen: Das Altertum, vol. 13, number 2. Berlin, 1967.

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Yet fisticuffs are not the Church of the Holy Sepulchre's only problem: in October it was revealed that a row between the Ethiopians and the Coptics was preventing urgent repairs to the roof, which is in danger of collapsing.

The monks who keep coming to blows in Jerusalem by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

Among the groups that courts in this country have found to have qualified as religions deserving of protection under the First Amendment are Santerias, Hare Krisnas, Scientologists, Aquarians, Rastafarians, Wiccas, Gnostics, Coptics, and Voodoists, not to mention the variety of charlatan faith-healers making the rounds on cable television and in convention centers.

The metaphor of the wall of separation: Baptists and the First ... by Underwood, William D. / Baptist History and Heritage

Vatican Radio noted that in Egypt, the population of 75 million is 90 percent Muslim, nine percent Orthodox Coptics, and one percent other Christians, including Catholics--who number between 250,000 and 300,000 faithful.

Worries over Eastern Catholics by Catholic Insight

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