One of my favorite fun facts that I learned because of this chart: So the Coptic script is the Egyptian language but written with Greek letters (plus 6 extra l

One of my favorite fun facts that I learned because of this chart: So the Coptic script is the Egyptian language but written with Greek letters (plus 6 extra letters for sounds the Greek alphabet doesn't cover). What's particularly interesting is that the Greek alphabet itself was based on the Phoenician alphabet, which was in turn derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs. In other words, the final stage of the Egyptian language (before Arabic was introduced) was written with a Greek script that was originally descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs. Full circle!