Bentley Layton - Coptic in 20 Lessons

Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises and Vocabularies

Do you want to read the only extant copy of The gospel of Thomas in original Coptic? Of course you do! Well then, what you waiting for!? Download and learn. The Coptic language is Egyptian language + the Greek alphabet + Demotic script(kind of). It's a very quirky and somewhat counter intuitive language, just like the Egyptians themselves.

Coptic and Demotic are grammatically closely akin to Late Egyptian, which was written in the hieroglyphic script. The main difference is in the writing. Coptic flourished as a literary language from the second to thirteenth centuries, and its Bohairic dialect continues to be the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. It was supplanted by Egyptian Arabic as a spoken language toward the early modern period, though revitalization efforts have been underway since the nineteenth century. The number of people who speak Coptic today reaches around 300