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The 22 pages that link to Coptic language, each with the reason it gives.

• Egyptian hieroglyphsRelated: Coptic preserved Egyptian vocabulary and grammar that aided hieroglyphic decipherment.

• Rosetta StoneRelated: Champollion used Coptic to recognize sounds and words in hieroglyphic writing.

• Roman EgyptRelated: Its emergence reflects late antique Egyptian culture under Greek and Roman political rule.

• Coptic Orthodox ChurchRelated: Coptic preserves the liturgical language and cultural inheritance of Egypt’s Christians.

• EgyptologyRelated: Coptic preserves the final stages of Egyptian and helps trace the language’s development.

• Egyptian ArabicRelated: Substrate influence from earlier Egyptian speech is often considered in accounts of Egyptian Arabic.

• GeʽezRelated: Coptic offers a parallel case of an ancient language surviving primarily in Christian liturgy.

• Gospel of ThomasRelated: The sole complete manuscript of Thomas is written in Coptic.

• Jean-François ChampollionRelated: Champollion’s command of Coptic supplied crucial evidence for the language behind hieroglyphic texts.

• Nag Hammadi libraryRelated: The codices are written in Coptic, making its language central to their study.

• Egyptian languageRelated: Knowledge of Coptic supplied a key to interpreting ancient Egyptian words and grammar.

• New Testament apocryphaRelated: Coptic manuscripts transmit important versions of several apocryphal works.

• Coptic artRelated: Coptic inscriptions appear on artworks and connect Christian objects to Egypt’s older language.

• Demotic EgyptianRelated: Coptic followed Demotic as the final major stage of Egyptian.

• Old NubianRelated: Coptic supplied most letters and many conventions used in Old Nubian writing.

• Coptic historyRelated: Its adoption carried Egyptian language and Christian worship into a new written era.

• Culture of EgyptRelated: It links modern Coptic religious practice to Egypt’s pre-Arab linguistic history.

• History of Oriental OrthodoxyRelated: Its use in worship and literature preserved Egyptian Christian identity as Arabic spread.