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Maryan Coptic ({{cop|ϯⲙⲩⲧⲭⲏⲙⲉ}}, <small>tr.</small> ''timutkʰēme'') is an [[w:Constructed_language#A_posteriori_language|a posteriori]] language created by conlanger [[User:Castillerian|Castillerian]]. The initial intent of this language is to envision a modernized variant of Classical [[w:Coptic language|Coptic]] while preserving most of its grammar, vocabulary, and estimated phonology.

The first drafts of what would become the Maryan Coptic language were created in March 2018, initially called 'New Coptc' and 'Neo-Egyptian'. Early drafts detailed a modified Latin alphabet as the language's primary writing system, and its phonology more atone with modern-day Greco-Bohairic Coptic. Discontent with the language's current state, the creator redrafted all its core phonology and grammar in May 2019, along with its entire lexicon.

Maryan Coptic's phonology bears immense resemblance to [[w:Coptic_language#Bohairic|Bohairic Coptic]], aside from the theory of Bohairic Coptic not retaining long vowels.

Maryan Coptic is chiefly written in a modified Coptic alphabet, which in return is a modified [[w:Greek_alphabet|Greek alphabet]] augmented by [[w:Demotic_(Egyptian)|Demotic]]-based glyphs. The script contains 32 pairs of glyphs (each pair containing one majuscule and one minuscule form) and 3 individual minuscule glyphs, adding up to 67 total glyphs. 48 of these glyphs originate from the Greek alphabet, while the remaining 19 originate as augmentations from the Demotic script.

In the earliest drafts dating back to March 2018, Maryan Coptic initially used a modified Latin alphabet, until a secondary script utilizing Coptic glyphs was introduced a month later in April. By July of the same year, the Latin script ceased all future and current usage, as all remaining texts which still used the Latin script were replaced with the more polished Coptic script.

The letter can also stand in as a historical consonant left unpronounced in modern speech. In more dated vernaculars, instances of ''hat'' would sustain the following letter, whereas in modern vernaculars the pronunciation of the word is left unmodified. Instances of ''hat'' placed before ''ro'' ({{cop|ⲣ}}) create an alveolar trill {{IPA|[r]}}.

* {{cop|'''ⲙⲁⳕⲃ'''}} (thirty): ''modern'' {{IPA|/maβ/}}, ''dated'' {{IPA|/maββ/}})

* {{cop|'''ⲓⲁⳕⲧ'''}} (eyes): ''modern'' {{IPA|/jat/}}, ''dated'' {{IPA|/jatt/}})

* {{cop|'''ⲁⳕϥ'''}} (fly): ''modern'' {{IPA|/af/}}, ''dated'' {{IPA|/aff/}})

Maryan Coptic utilizes an alternative script for efficient online communication known as ''picinsxai thyt'' (the united script). The script uses only base Latin glyphs and digraphs to represent the phonemes of Maryan Coptic, as the Coptic script remains semi-incompatible for most modern devices.

Maryan Coptic's consonants remain the same among most Coptic dialects, even retaining the velar fricative {{IPA|/x/}}.

The exact qualities of Bohairic Coptic's vowels remain unknown. Maryan Coptic's vowels were created largely from personal preference and some basis in [[w:Koine Greek|Koine Greek]] spoken in the 1st Centiry CE.

Maryan Coptic uses a [[w:Stress_(linguistics)#Lexical_stress|lexical stress]] system. The primary stress is always found either on the [[w:Penult|penult]] or the [[w:Ultima_(linguistics)|ultima]], depending on the vowels present, and the secondary stress is always found at least two syllables before the primary stress, usually in conjugated verbs and compound nouns. However, borrowed loanwords tend to break this pattern, as Maryan Coptic attempts to preserve the stress from the loanword's source language. Fortunately, inherited loanwords are constructed specifically to fit Maryan Coptic's native stress system, making their stress patterns more predictable than direct borrowings.

Most native Maryan Coptic words follow a syllable structure of (C)(C)V(C)(C), while foreign loanwords, mainly of Greek origin, can have a structure of (C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C). Less educated speakers may use a short schwa for ease of pronunciation.