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coptic

A language descended from ancient Egyptian, and a system of alphabetic writing. Coptic began to develop when Egypt began to be Christianized. Coptic writing uses mainly the Greek alphabet, supplemented by other letters that denote phonemes that are unknown in Greek.


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