Coptic is the name given to the late Egyptian vernacular when it was written in a Greek-based alphabet, the Coptic alphabet; it flourished from the time of Early Christianity (c. 31/33–324), but Egyptian phrases written in the Greek alphabet first appeared during the Hellenistic period , with the first known Coptic text, still pagan (Old Coptic), from the 1st century AD.
Coptic is the name given to the late Egyptian vernacular when it was written in a Greek-based alphabet the Coptic alphabet; it flourished from the time of Early Christianity (c 31/33–324) but Egyptian phrases written in the Greek alphabet first appeared during the Hellenistic period  with the first known Coptic text still pagan (Old Coptic) from the 1st century AD