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Coptic

Coptic

Summary

Coptic, a liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, descends from Ancient Egyptian. Though no longer spoken as a native language, it remains central to religious practices among the Coptic Christian community. Written in the Coptic alphabet, derived from Greek, it has fusional grammar and follows a subject-verb-object (SVO) word order.

Stats

  • Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

  • Writing System: Coptic

  • Writing System Type: Alphabet

  • Writing Direction: L to R

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: None

  • Morphology: Fusional

  • Cases: None

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 2 genders

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 3

  • Word Order: SVO

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 8

  • Number of Consonants: 22

Areas Where Spoken

  • Egypt (liturgical (among Copts))

Resources

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