Coptic

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Coptic (language). Coptic was the language usually spoken by the native populace of Egypt from about the middle of the 3rd to the 10th cent. AD and is still that of the liturgy of the Coptic Church. In essence it is the language of ancient Egypt, into which a large number of Greek words have been incorporated, and it is written in an alphabet akin to that of the Greeks.

Coptic The language of ancient Egypt, into which some Greek words had been introduced; it was spoken in four dialects from the 3rd to the 10th cents.CE. The NT was translated into each of the four. A number of Gnostic works in Coptic have been discovered, and the language is still used in the liturgy of the Egyptian Coptic Church.

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