What script — comprising 24 letters borrowed mainly from Greek — replaced hieroglyphs as the writing system of late ancient Egypt and evolved into the liturgical script of the Coptic Church?

• A The Phoenician alphabet
• B The Aramaic script
• C The Coptic alphabet ✓
• D The Meroitic script

The Coptic alphabet, which adds six or seven Demotic-derived letters to the 24-letter Greek alphabet, emerged in the 2nd century CE as the final stage of the language and remains the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church today.