Egyptian Arabic
Arabic dialect spoken in Egypt
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The modern Egyptian language (Maṣrī مصري) is a group of dialects of the Arabic language, one of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
The modern Egyptian language | |
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اللغه المصريه الحديثه | |
Pronunciation | [elˈloɣæ l.mɑsˤˈɾejjɑ l.ħæˈdisæ] |
Native to | Egypt |
Native speakers | 58,412,000 (2014)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Arabic alphabet Latin alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | arz |
Glottolog | egyp1253 |
It came from the people living in the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt around the capital Cairo. It originates from the spoken Arabic brought to Egypt during the AD 7th-century The Arab occupation of the Middle East and North Africa.
Egyptian Arabic was formed also of Copto-Egyptian language of pre-Islamic Egypt,[2][3][4] and other languages such as Italian and French. Egyptian Arabic is officially recognized as the national language of the Egyptian government. More than 76 million people in Egypt speak Egyptian Arabic. Also, many people in the Middle East can understand it.
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