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The Coptic alphabet have 31 characters derived from both the Greek alphabet and the Demotic cursive hieroglyphic script (marked in green). Unlike the original Greek alphabet, Coptic does not posses -a distinct upper case version of its letters.

Coptic does not have a set transliteration. But since it derived from the Greek alphabet, we can borrow the Greek transliteration with few changes.

• Ϧ may be written either with a straight or a curled beginning.
• Akhmimic used its own Ⳉ (a modification of Ϩ /h/) instead of Ϧ /x/.
• Some earlier manuscripts contain a special adaption of shai "Ⳃ ⳃ" and a unique "Ⳋ ⳋ", both probably representing a voiceless palatal fricative (/ç/).

The origin for the additional seven characters — shai, fai, xai, hori, cancia, chima and tiei — is from Egyptian hieroglyphs through a mediate cursive form known as Demotic.

	Characters
Letter	Ϣ	Ϥ	Ϧ	Ϩ	Ϫ	Ϭ	Ϯ
Hieroglyphic
Demotic

All dialects seem to have had the same vowel set, but they utilized them differently.

Scholars noticed a possible realization of a velar nasal, particularly in Sahidic. The digraph "ⲛⲕ" /nk/ may be interchanged with "ⲛⲅ" at the end of words. According to Vergote, Ernštedt, Loprieno and Kasser, this points to a realization of or , according to Hinze and Worrel , and according to Cartreau and Peust simply similar to German nk.

• ⲧⲱⲟⲩⲛⲅ (tōoung) “rise yourself” /ˈtownk/ or or from Egyptian dwn.k

The rare digraph "ⲙⲕ" /nk/ is also interchangeable with "ⲙⲅ". According to Peust, this is realized as :

• ⲟⲩⲱⲙⲅ (ouōmg) “to eat you” /ˈwomk/ from Egyptian wnm.k