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Greek and Coptic were "disunified" with Unicode version 4.1. Coptic is now considered a separate script from Greek and is defined in the Coptic block (U+2C80 - U+2CFF) with a small section (U+03E2 - U+03EF) of the Greek block retained. This page shows fonts that support those two ranges.
If you want to see legacy fonts that support Coptic using only the Greek Unicode block (U+0370 - U+03FF), see my Greek Coptic page.
The Coptic alphabet is a historical adaptation of the Greek alphabet with additional letters based on Egyptian Demotic script. The alphabet came into general use in the 4th century CE. It is employed primarily to write Coptic, which is now used only as a liturgical language (by Coptic Christians).
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ALPHABETUM Unicode
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(ALPHABETUM v.9.00.ttf) Note: Excellent font for linguistics and ancient languages. PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Shareware ($15) from Juan José Marcos. Stats: Version 9.0 Feb 2007 has 5,515 glyphs and 220 kerning pairs Support: Coptic, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Gothic, Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Glagolitic, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Ogham, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Runic, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Iberic & Celtiberic, additional Old Italic glyphs, Old & Medieval Latin) |
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Code2000
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(code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai |
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FreeSerifAthanasius
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(FreeSerifAthanasius.ttf) Source: Free download from Moheb Mekhaiel 's website. Support: Armenian, Bengali, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese Note: This font is version 1.53a of FreeSerif with Coptic characters added. Refer to the FreeSerif page for all non-Coptic samples of this font. |
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FreeSerifAvvaShenouda
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(FreeSerifAvvaShenouda.ttf) Source: Free download from Moheb Mekhaiel 's website. Support: Armenian, Bengali, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese Note: This font is version 1.53a of FreeSerif with Coptic characters added. Refer to the FreeSerif page for all non-Coptic samples of this font. |
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FreeSerifCopt
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(FreeSerifCopt.ttf) Note: Another font called FreeSerifCopt2 appears identical to FreeSerifCopt. Source: Free download from Moheb Mekhaiel 's website. Support: Armenian, Bengali, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese Note: This font is version 1.53a of FreeSerif with Coptic characters added. Refer to the FreeSerif page for all non-Coptic samples of this font. |
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FreeSerifCopticMS
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(FreeSerifCopticMS.ttf) Source: Free download from Moheb Mekhaiel 's website. Support: Armenian, Bengali, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese Note: This font is version 1.53a of FreeSerif with Coptic characters added. Refer to the FreeSerif page for all non-Coptic samples of this font. |
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FreeSerifCoptoMS
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(FreeSerifCoptoMS.ttf) Source: Free download from Moheb Mekhaiel 's website. Support: Armenian, Bengali, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese Note: This font is version 1.53a of FreeSerif with Coptic characters added. Refer to the FreeSerif page for all non-Coptic samples of this font. |
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FreeSerifKoptosMS
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(FreeSerifKoptosMS.ttf) Source: Free download from Moheb Mekhaiel 's website. Support: Armenian, Bengali, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese Note: This font is version 1.53a of FreeSerif with Coptic characters added. Refer to the FreeSerif page for all non-Coptic samples of this font. |
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FreeSerifPishoi
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(FreeSerifPishoi.ttf) Source: Free download from Moheb Mekhaiel 's website. Support: Armenian, Bengali, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese Note: This font is version 1.53a of FreeSerif with Coptic characters added. Refer to the FreeSerif page for all non-Coptic samples of this font. |
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MPH 2B Damase
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(damase_v.2.ttf from damase_v.2.zip) Source: Free download locally. Stats: Version 001.000 / 002.000 has 2,896 glyphs and 192 kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese |
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New Athena Unicode
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(newathu.ttf from NAUvversion_ttf.zip) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download from the New Athena Unicode page on GreekKeys. Stats: Version 2.005 July 2005 has 1,481 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Coptic, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Latin |
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