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Egyptian Arabic
‫اللغه المصريه الحديثه‬
Pronunciation [elˈloɣæ l.mɑsˤˈɾejjɑ
l.ħæˈdisæ]
Native to Egypt
Native speakers 58,412,000 (2014)[1]
Language family Afro-Asiatic

 Semitic
o Central Semitic
 Arabic
 Central
 Egyptian Arabic
Writing system Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3 arz
Glottolog egyp1253 [2]

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Egyptian Arabic (Maṣrī ‫ )مصري‬is a dialect of the Arabic language, one of the Semitic branch of the
Afro-Asiatic language family.

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 Muslim conquest of North Africa.

Egyptian Arabic was formed also of Copto-Egyptian language of pre-Islamic Egypt,[3][4][5] 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.

References[change | change source]

1. ↑ Egyptian Arabic at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)

2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Egyptian Arabic". Glottolog
3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Cite uses deprecated
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3. ↑ Nishio, Tetsuo. "Word order and word order change of wh-questions in Egyptian Arabic: The Coptic
substratum reconsidered". Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of L'Association
Internationale pour la Dialectologie Arabe. Cambridge: University of Cambridge. 1996, pp. 171-179
4. ↑ Bishai, Wilson B. "Coptic grammatical influence on Egyptian Arabic". Journal of the American Oriental
Society. No.82, pp. 285-289.
5. ↑ Youssef (2003), below.