Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Coptic

c. 100 CE – 1700 CE Classical

Coptic (c. 100 CE – 1700 CE) is a classical Afro-Asiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Old Egyptian → Middle Egyptian → Late Egyptian → Demotic → Coptic.

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ISO 639-3
cop
Glottocode
copt1239

Final stage of Egyptian, written in a Greek-derived alphabet. Displaced by Arabic as a vernacular by about the 17th century; survives as the liturgical language of the Coptic Church.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Old Egyptianc. 2,600 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  3. Middle Egyptianc. 2,000 BCE – 1,350 BCE
  4. Late Egyptianc. 1,350 BCE – 700 BCE
  5. Demoticc. 700 BCE – 450 CE
  6. Copticc. 100 CE – 1700 CE

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