Coptic vs Greek

Writing system comparison · ISO Copt vs ISO Grek

Coptic is a Liturgical Left-to-right script from African (137 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Greek is a Living Left-to-right script from European (518 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Ϩⲉⲗⲗⲟ
Ⲁⲗⲫⲁⲃⲏⲧⲟⲥ
Γεια σου κόσμε
Ελληνικό αλφάβητο

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Coptic Greek
ISO Code Copt Grek
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Liturgical Living
Region African European
Characters 137 518
Languages 0 5
Script Type Alphabet Alphabet
Descended From Greek Phoenician
Total Speakers ~13M
Introduced 200 CE 800 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+03E2–U+03EF
U+2C80–U+2CFF
U+0370–U+03FF
U+1D26–U+1D6A
U+1DBF–U+1DBF
U+1F00–U+1FFE
U+2126–U+2126
U+AB65–U+AB65
U+10140–U+1018E
U+101A0–U+101A0
U+1D200–U+1D245

Only in Coptic

0 languages
None unique

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

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Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.