Coptic may refer to:

Afro-Asia

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 *

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 *

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: **

Greek and Coptic (Unicode block) Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek. It was originally used for writing Coptic, using the similar Greek letters, in addition to the uniquely Coptic additions. Beginning with version 4.1 of the Unicode ...

, a block of Unicode characters for writing the Coptic language, from which Coptic was disunified in Unicode 4.1 **

Coptic (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 Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology s ...

, a block of Unicode characters for writing the Coptic language, introduced in Unicode 4.1 **

Coptic Epact Numbers Coptic Epact Numbers is a Unicode block containing old Coptic number forms. These numbers were used in some regions instead of letters of the Coptic alphabet that were used for encoding numbers, as was common in much of the world at the time, l ...

, a block of Unicode characters for writing Coptic numerals *

Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria The Coptic Orthodox Church ( cop, Ϯⲉⲕ̀ⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲛ̀ⲟⲣⲑⲟⲇⲟⲝⲟⲥ, translit=Ti.eklyseya en.remenkimi en.orthodoxos, lit=the Egyptian Orthodox Church; ar, الكنيسة القبطي� ...

or Coptic Church, the largest Christian church in Egypt and the Middle East *

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 *

Coptic architecture Coptic architecture is the architecture of the Coptic Christians, who form the majority of Christians in Egypt. Coptic churches range from great cathedrals such as Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral to the smallest churches in rural village ...

, the architecture of the Copts *

Coptic binding Coptic binding or Coptic sewing comprises methods of bookbinding employed by early Christians in Egypt, the Copts, and used from as early as the 2nd century AD to the 11th century.It is sometimes claimed that the Coptic binding, and thus the wes ...

or Coptic sewing, methods of bookbinding employed by early Christians in Egypt

Other uses

* 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 The ''Coptic Encyclopedia'' is an eight-volume work covering the history, theology, language, art, architecture, archeology and hagiography of Coptic Egypt. The encyclopedia was written by over 250 Western and Egyptian contributing experts in the ...

'', an eight-volume work covering all areas of knowledge of Coptic Egypt

Afro-Asia

Other uses

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