Coptic

TM Language id: 18

Language family and branch: Afro-Asiatic, Egyptian

Link(s): Glottolog, Wikipedia (language), Wikipedia (script), BCD

Coptic is the name for the stage of the Egyptian language written with the Greek alphabet with some extra signs taken from Demotic (also known as the Coptic alphabet). In a great majority of cases the dialect is indicated: Sahidic, Bohairic, Akhmimic, Sub-Akhmimic, Fayumic, Middle Egyptian, or Lycopolite. The pre-standardized form, called Old Coptic, is also included here.

Trismegistos should have all documentary papyri in Coptic through the Brussels Coptic Database and own work. The literary ones pre-dating AD 800 have been entered as part of the LDAB. Coverage of the inscriptions is patchy and there are almost no literary manuscripts from after AD 800.