Coptic
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Coptic may refer to a number of things related to the Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya.
- Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
- Coptic alphabet, the script used for writing the Coptic language, encoded in Unicode as:
- Greek and Coptic, a block of Unicode characters for writing the Coptic language, from which Coptic was disunified in Unicode 4.1
- Coptic (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters for writing the Coptic language, introduced in Unicode 4.1
- Coptic Epact Numbers, a block of Unicode characters for writing Coptic numerals
- Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria or Coptic Church, the largest Christian church in Egypt and the Middle East
- Coptic Catholic Church, an Alexandrian Rite particular Church
- Coptic architecture, the architecture of the Copts
- Coptic binding or Coptic sewing, methods of bookbinding employed by early Christians in Egypt
- SS Coptic (1881), a ship of the White Star Line
Coptic, in the geometry of polygons and polyhedra, is a term for self-intersecting shapes. (This usage is unrelated to the Copts.)
See also
- Copic, often typoed or autocorrected to Coptic