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Greek letters counting in Egypt.
Also known as: Coptic alphabetic numbers
The Coptic number signs, taken from the Greek alphabetic numerals with added letters.
Write numbers in Coptic using letters marked with an overbar.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Adopted the Greek alphabetic system wholesale into a script that had demotic-derived letters of its own, so the numerals and the letters come from different traditions inside one alphabet.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Coptic letters marked with an overbar to signal numeric use, following the Greek units-tens-hundreds arrangement.