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Coptic is the final development of writing in ancient Egypt. It is essentially the Greek alphabet, plus a few signs taken from the Demotic script to represent Egyptian sounds not found in Greek and it was used to write the Coptic language - the Egyptian Christian Church language which existed alongside Arabic.

Coptic was heading for extinction by the late 1600s, until European scholars began to realise that an understanding of Coptic would assist in understanding ancient Egyptian and the interpretation of hieroglyphs.

Sahidic Coptic uses 30 alphabetic letters including 6 derived from Demotic. These are called sei, fai, hori, djandja, chima, ti and represent s, f, h, g, c and ti.

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