Relating to the Copts, their church, or their ancient Egyptian language descended from pharaonic Egyptian.
From 'Copt,' derived ultimately from Greek 'Aigyptos' (Egypt); Coptic language is the last stage of the ancient Egyptian language, using Greek letters.
Coptic is the only living descendant of ancient Egyptian—when you read Coptic texts, you're reading a direct linguistic line back to the pharaohs, making it an incredible linguistic fossil that's still used liturgically.
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