Coptic

The final stage of the Egyptian language, written in an alphabet adapted from Greek with seven additional letters preserving Egyptian sounds that Greek lacked. Coptic emerged as a literary language with the spread of Christianity in Egypt during the third and fourth centuries CE and remained a living spoken language through the early Islamic period. It survives today as the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Coptic forms in entries are romanized letter for letter, with ē and ō marking the long vowels written eta and omega; forms whose spelling contains neither letter carry no macron. Name-forms are capitalized in transliteration and prose (Kēme, Eioor, Hrōmē) even where dictionaries lemmatize them in lowercase.

@misc{onomastikon-coptic,
  author = {Rajagopal, Shriram},
  title = {Coptic},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://onomastikon.org/languages/coptic}},
  note = {Onomastikon: A Digital Atlas of Ancient Names}
}