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Coptic script
Script type
Alphabet
Time period
2nd century A.D.[1] to present (in Coptic liturgy)
Direction
Left-to-right
Languages
Coptic language
Related scripts
Parent systems
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Proto-Sinaitic
Phoenician alphabet
Greek script augmented by Demotic
Coptic script
Child systems
Old Nubian
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Copt(204), Coptic
Unicode
Unicode alias
Coptic
Unicode range
U+2C80–U+2CFF Coptic
U+0370–U+03FF Greek and Coptic
U+102E0–U+102FF Coptic Epact Numbers
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