Coptic alphabet

The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the Greek alphabet augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic and is the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian language. There are several Coptic alphabets, as the Coptic writing system may vary greatly among the various dialects and subdialects of the Coptic language.

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Coptic alphabet
Script type	Alphabet
Time period	2nd century A.D.[1] to present (in Coptic liturgy)
Direction	left-to-right
Languages	Coptic language
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician alphabet Greek script augmented by Demotic Coptic alphabet
Child systems	Old Nubian
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Copt, 204 , ​Coptic
Unicode
Unicode alias	Coptic
Unicode range	U+2C80–U+2CFF Coptic U+0370–U+03FF Greek and Coptic U+102E0–U+102FF Coptic Epact Numbers
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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