Are there people who speak Rmnkemi (Coptic) today?

Question

Bohairic Coptic is used in Coptic Church liturgy, but what about as a regularly spoken language?

Is it being revived as Hebrew was among the Jews in Israel?

Answer 1

This explanation is  good  and clear so I will not paraphrase it.



Coptic or Coptic Egyptian (Met.Remenkīmi) is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the seventeenth century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the first century. The new writing system became the Coptic script, an adapted Greek alphabet with the addition of six to seven signs from the demotic script to represent Egyptian phonemes absent from Greek. Several distinct Coptic dialects are identified, the most prominent of which are Sahidic and Bohairic.

As developmental phases of Egyptian, both Coptic and Demotic are grammatically closely akin to Late Egyptian, which was written in the hieroglyphic script, but differ significantly in their graphic representation.

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 towards the early modern period, though some revitalization efforts have been underway since the nineteenth century. Some claim that it never became extinct.

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