Coptic may refer to:

Afro-Asia

Copts Copts (; ) are a Christians, Christian ethnoreligious group, ethnoreligious group native to Northeast Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity. They are, like the broader Egyptians, Egyptian population, des ...

, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya *

Coptic language Coptic () is a dormant language, dormant Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language. It is a group of closely related Egyptian dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Ancient Egyptian language, Egyptian language, and histori ...

, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century *

Coptic script The Coptic alphabet is the Writing system, script used for writing the Coptic language, the most recent development of Egyptian language, Egyptian. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the uncial Greek alphabet, augmented by letters borrowed fro ...

, 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 also used for writing Coptic, using the similar Greek letters in addition to the uniquely Coptic additions. Beginning with version 4.1 of the U ...

, 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 (Unicode block), Greek and Coptic block to write the Coptic language. Prior to version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, the "Greek and Coptic" block was used exclusively to write Coptic text, b ...

, 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, ...

, a block of Unicode characters for writing Coptic numerals *

Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria The Coptic Orthodox Church (), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt. The head of the church and the See of Alexandria is the pope of Alexandria on the Holy Apo ...

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

Coptic Catholic Church The Coptic Catholic Church (), also known as the Coptic Catholic Church of Alexandria, is an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Catholic Church. Along with the Ethiopian Catholic Church and Eritrean Catholic Church ...

, an Alexandrian Rite particular Church *

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

, 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 weste ...

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

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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 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 th ...

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

Afro-Asia

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