2024-03-28T12:21:47Zhttps://escholarship.org/oaioai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt22r6s8812023-08-23T18:55:05Zqt22r6s881CopticRichter, Tonio Sebastian2023-02-07
Coptic is the youngest written standard of the Egyptian language. Spelled with the characters of the Greek alphabet plus some extra signs, it was productively used for almost a thousand years, from the fourth to the fourteenth centuries CE, to record texts of a wide range of types and purposes, and is still being used in the liturgy of the Coptic church. Coptic texts have survived in enormous numbers and comprise literary, semi-literary, and documentary corpora in a range of dialects and genres. Analysis of salient grammatical features of the Coptic language elucidates both innovative and conservative features in comparison to those of its predecessor, Demotic.
copticlanguage phaseapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/22r6s881articleUCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, vol 1, iss 1