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Coptic Alphabet

The letters and characters of Coptic written in the Coptic script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 6,674,820 people read or write it across 1 country.

26Fonts cover the standard set
32Standard characters
6,674,820People
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Coptic — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page. The Fonts column counts how many fonts include each letter, in the same order as the letters and codepoints; an accented form under a letter gets its own codepoint and count line beneath it.

LetterNameCodepointsFontsper letter, in order
Ⲁⲁ Alfa U+2C80 · U+2C81 25 / 32
Ⲃⲃ Vida U+2C82 · U+2C83 29 / 36
Ⲅⲅ Gamma U+2C84 · U+2C85 25 / 31
Ⲇⲇ Dalda U+2C86 · U+2C87 24 / 31
Ⲉⲉ Eie U+2C88 · U+2C89 32 / 35
Ⲋⲋ Sou U+2C8A · U+2C8B 23 / 30
Ⲍⲍ Zata U+2C8C · U+2C8D 24 / 31
Ⲏⲏ Hate U+2C8E · U+2C8F 28 / 35
Ⲑⲑ Thethe U+2C90 · U+2C91 28 / 35
Ⲓⲓ Iauda U+2C92 · U+2C93 28 / 35
Ⲕⲕ Kapa U+2C94 · U+2C95 28 / 35
Ⲗⲗ Laula U+2C96 · U+2C97 24 / 31
Ⲙⲙ Mi U+2C98 · U+2C99 24 / 31
Ⲛⲛ Ni U+2C9A · U+2C9B 28 / 35
Ⲝⲝ Ksi U+2C9C · U+2C9D 24 / 31
Ⲟⲟ O U+2C9E · U+2C9F 28 / 35
Ⲡⲡ Pi U+2CA0 · U+2CA1 28 / 35
Ⲣⲣ Ro U+2CA2 · U+2CA3 28 / 35
Ⲥⲥ Sima U+2CA4 · U+2CA5 28 / 35
Ⲧⲧ Tau U+2CA6 · U+2CA7 24 / 31
Ⲩⲩ Ua U+2CA8 · U+2CA9 28 / 35
Ⲫⲫ Fi U+2CAA · U+2CAB 28 / 35
Ⲭⲭ Khi U+2CAC · U+2CAD 28 / 35
Ⲯⲯ Psi U+2CAE · U+2CAF 28 / 31
Ⲱⲱ Oou U+2CB0 · U+2CB1 24 / 31
Ϣϣ Shei U+03E2 · U+03E3 194 / 202
Ϥϥ Fei U+03E4 · U+03E5 149 / 152
Ϧϧ Khei U+03E6 · U+03E7 136 / 139
Ϩϩ Hori U+03E8 · U+03E9 196 / 203
Ϫϫ Gangia U+03EA · U+03EB 182 / 186
Ϭϭ Shima U+03EC · U+03ED 152 / 159
Ϯϯ Dei U+03EE · U+03EF 185 / 194

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

–U+2013⸗U+2E17,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A.U+002E⳹U+2CF9⳾U+2CFE⳼U+2CFC⳿U+2CFF(U+0028)U+0029

Where Coptic is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Coptic in the Coptic script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
Egypt 6,674,820 6%

Coptic — facts

Font coverage 26 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 32 standard characters; 20 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Coptic
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, General Punctuation, Coptic, Supplemental Punctuation
People About 6,674,820 people read or write Coptic in the Coptic script — mostly in Egypt.

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.