Coptic may refer to:
Afro-Asia
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Copts
Copts ( cop, ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ; ar, الْقِبْط ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt and Sudan since antiquity. Most ethnic Copts are C ...
, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya
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Coptic language
Coptic (Bohairic Coptic: , ) is a language family of closely related dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third-century AD in Roman Egypt. Coptic ...
, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
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Coptic alphabet
The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the Greek alphabet augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic and is the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian la ...
, the script used for writing the Coptic language, encoded in Unicode as:
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Greek and Coptic (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters for writing the Coptic language, from which Coptic was disunified in Unicode 4.1
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Coptic (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters for writing the Coptic language, introduced in Unicode 4.1
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Coptic Epact Numbers, a block of Unicode characters for writing Coptic numerals
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Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria or Coptic Church, the largest Christian church in Egypt and the Middle East
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Coptic Catholic Church
The Coptic Catholic Church ( ar, الكنيسة القبطية الكاثوليكية; la, Ecclesia Catholica Coptorum) is an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Catholic Church. Along with the Ethiopian Catholic Chur ...
, an Alexandrian Rite particular Church
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Coptic architecture, the architecture of the Copts
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Coptic binding or Coptic sewing, methods of bookbinding employed by early Christians in Egypt
Other uses
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SS ''Coptic'' (1881), a ship of the White Star Line
* ''
Coptic Egypt: The Christians of the Nile'', a 2000 nonfiction book written by Christian Cannuyer
* ''
Coptic Encyclopedia'', an eight-volume work covering all areas of knowledge of Coptic Egypt
See also
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Copic
is a Japan, Japanese brand of refillable marker pen, markers and related products made by the Too Corporation and distributed in the United States and Canada by its subsidiary, "Too Corporation Americas".
Description
Copic is most famous for it ...
, a brand of refillable markers
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