Metremnkēme · a Coptic learning platform

The language of the Copts — learn it, read it, keep it.

Learn Bohairic Coptic with spaced repetition, read glossed texts from the liturgical tradition, and explore how Egypt's oldest language still lives in names, months and places — every claim sourced, every gap admitted.

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Four steps from zero to reading Coptic

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Coptic Alphabet · Letters Ⲁ-Ⲍ (Alpha to Zita)

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The language

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AlphabetMeet the 32 Bohairic letters — Greek inheritance and Demotic signs — each with its sound, numeral and example words.32 × ⲟⲩⲁⲓ DictionarySearch Coptic, English, Arabic or transliteration; hear every headword spoken.911 entries ReadFrom the Lord's Prayer onward — tap any word for its meaning, hear any line read aloud.15 texts

Coptic identity

More than a language

Script, calendar, music, symbols and memory — explore each dimension of Coptic identity through sourced, bilingual chapters.

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The Coptic LanguageCoptic is the final phase of the Egyptian language, written in Greek letters plus seven signs taken from Demotic.The Coptic ScriptAn alphabet of Greek letters expanded with seven Demotic signs for sounds Greek lacked.Calendar & FeastsThe Coptic calendar divides the year into twelve 30-day months plus a short thirteenth month.Music & HymnsCoptic hymnody is transmitted orally from cantor to cantor across generations.

Heritage

The world behind the words

Desert monasteries, scribes and saints, a two-thousand-year timeline, and Egypt's own archive photography.

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Places

The geography of Coptic Egypt

Desert monasteries and river towns, Old Cairo churches and museums of preservation — search every documented place by name, type or region.

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The language is still here

Coptic never fully left. It counts Egypt's months, names its children, marks its spring — and survives in texts anyone can now learn to read.

Today in Coptic heritage

Mesori 20, 1741 A.M.

26 August 2026

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No documented fixed observance for this date in the verified register.

Coptic New Year (Nayrouz)
Feast of the Cross
Annunciation, Nativity, and Resurrection
Advent Fast
Kiahk

Calendar data via coptic.io