Rubutun Coptic

shine rubutun da aka yi amfani da shi don rubuta Harshen Coptic, ci gaban Masar na baya-bayan nan. Jerin glyphs ya dogara ne kuma an samo shi ne a kan haruffa na Helenanci, wanda aka kara da haruffa da aka aro daga Demotic na Masar. Ita ce rubutun haruffa na farko da aka yi amfani da shi don Harshen Masar. Akwai haruffa na Coptic da yawa, kamar yadda rubutun ya bambanta sosai tsakanin yaruka daban-daban da lokutan Harshen Coptic.

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Rubutun Coptic yana da dogon tarihi wanda ya koma Masarautar Ptolemaic, lokacin da aka yi amfani da haruffa na Helenanci don fassara matani na Demotic, tare da manufar yin rikodin yadda ake furta Demotic daidai. Tun daga farkon karni na shida BC kuma a ƙarshen karni na biyu AD, an rubuta dukkan jerin matani na addinin kafin Kiristanci a cikin abin da masana ke kira Tsohon Coptic, matani na harshen Masar da aka rubuta a cikin haruffa na Helenanci.

Ya bambanta da Tsohon Coptic, an samo ƙarin haruffa Coptic guda bakwai daga Demotic, kuma da yawa daga cikin waɗannan (ko da yake ba duka ba) ana amfani da su a cikin "gaskiya" na rubutun Coptic. Littattafan Coptic suna da alaƙa da Kiristanci, Gnosticism, da Manichaeism.

Tare da yaduwar Kiristanci na farko a Misira, ilimin rubutun Masar ya ɓace a ƙarshen ƙarni na uku, da kuma rubutun Demotic dan kadan daga baya, yana ba da hanyar tsarin rubutu da ke da alaƙa da Cocin Orthodox na Coptic. A ƙarni na huɗu, an "tsaya rubutun Coptic", musamman ga yaren Sahidic.  (Akwai bambance-bambance da yawa tsakanin haruffa kamar yadda aka yi amfani da su a cikin yaruka daban-daban a cikin Coptic).

Ba a amfani da Coptic a yau sai dai membobin Cocin Orthodox na Coptic don rubuta rubutun addininsu. Dukkanin Gnostic codices da aka samu a Nag Hammadi sun yi amfani da rubutun Coptic
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