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The History of the Coptic Language. I. Definition. The Coptic Language is the name used to refer to the last stage of the written Egyptian language. Coptic should more correctly be used to refer to the script rather than the language itself. Even though this script was introduced as far back as the 2nd century BC., it is usually applied to the writing of the Egyptian language from the first century AD. to the present day.
Coptic was the language used by early Christians in Egypt, which had many spoken words similar to ancient Egyptian. But hieroglyphic writing was lost, for over 1400 years. The last hieroglyphs written in ancient times, in AD 394, in the Temple of Philae, on the Gate of Hadrian. The Middle Ages. Scholars in the middle ages tried to work out what hieroglyphs meant. The Egyptians were thought of as very clever people, who had magic and all sorts of mystical, mysterious knowledge. But just about all the guesses these medieval scholars made were wrong.