Coptic Explained

Coptic may refer to:

Afro-Asia

• 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 script, the script used for writing the Coptic language, encoded in Unicode as:
  • Greek and Coptic (Unicode block), 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

Other uses

• SS Coptic (1881), a ship of the White Star Line
• , a 2000 nonfiction book written by Christian Cannuyer
• Coptic Encyclopedia, an eight-volume work covering all areas of knowledge of Coptic Egypt

See also

• Copic, a brand of refillable markers