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Coptic

Latest stage of the Egyptian language

Languagedead language sacred language chronolectQ36155

Also known as Coptic Egyptian · Coptic language · cop

Speakers: 0(2021)
, unknown(2021)
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1.newsweek.com/sounds-silence-160761
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Subclass of: Egyptian language
Script: Coptic script
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1.raialyoum.com/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A2%D8%AE%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AD/
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Indigenous to: Egyptians

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Coptic is a dormant Afroasiatic language. It is a group of closely related Egyptian dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Egyptians, starting from the third century AD in Roman Egypt. Coptic was supplanted by Arabic as the primary spoken language of Egypt following the Arab conquest of Egypt and was slowly replaced over the centuries.

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72 statements · 29% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Follows: Demotic Egyptian
Started: 2nd century
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1.Stated in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
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Country: Egypt
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1.“ScriptSource - Egypt”scriptsource.org/country/EGRetrieved 2023-08-21
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Ancient Egypt
Language regulatory body: Institute of Coptology
UNESCO language status: 6 extinct
Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object
nominative–accusative language
agglutinative language
Ethnologue language status: 9 Second language only
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1.Stated in Ethnologueethnologue.com/language/copRetrieved 2019-05-10
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Wikimedia language code: cop
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1.Stated in Wikidata Toolkitgithub.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/blob/3e62f93b137c25961c5a12172c7f213a720ecb67/wdtk-datamodel/src/main/java/org/wikidata/wdtk/datamodel/interfaces/WikimediaLanguageCodes.javaRetrieved 2019-06-06
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Native label: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ uses: Bohairic
ⲧⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲣⲙ̄ⲛ̄ⲕⲏⲙⲉ uses: Sahidic
Studied by: Coptology
Category for music in this language: Category:Coptic-language music
Permanent duplicated item: Q13196577

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44 identifiers linking Coptic across the web's reference databases

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