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Categories: Languages extinct in the 19th century, Languages of Egypt, Byzantine Egypt, Languages with ISO 639-2 code, Egyptian languages
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Coptic  Coptic language  Coptic Egyptian  Sahidic  Thebaic
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Coptic is a group of closely related Egyptian dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third century AD in Roman Egypt. Coptic was supplanted by Arabic as the primary spoken language of Egypt following the Muslim conquest of Egypt and was slowly replaced over the centuries. Wikipedia
A Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century Wikipedia Disambiguation
Latest stage of the Egyptian language Wikidata
A direct descendant of the ancient Egyptian language. OmegaWiki
The Coptic dialect in which most known Coptic texts are written. OmegaWiki
The Afroasiatic language traditionally spoken by the Copts in Egypt, now extinct and used only as a liturgical language. Wiktionary