{"pk":4141,"title":"Coptic","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Coptic is the youngest written standard of the Egyptian language. Spelled with the characters of the Greek alphabet plus some extra signs, it was productively used for almost a thousand years, from the fourth to the fourteenth centuries CE, to record texts of a wide range of types and purposes, and is still being used in the liturgy of the Coptic church. Coptic texts have survived in enormous numbers and comprise literary, semi-literary, and documentary corpora in a range of dialects and genres. Analysis of salient grammatical features of the Coptic language elucidates both innovative and conservative features in comparison to those of its predecessor, Demotic.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Coptic"},{"word":"language phase"}],"section":"Language, Text and Writing","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22r6s881","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tonio Sebastian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Richter","name_suffix":"","institution":"FU Berlin","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-12-08T21:10:08Z","date_accepted":"2008-12-08T21:10:08Z","date_published":"2023-02-07T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/4141/galley/2628/download/"}]}