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The term Egyptian Arabic is usually used synonymously with Cairene Arabic, which is technically a dialect of Egyptian Arabic. The country's native name, مصر Maṣr, is often used locally to refer to Cairo itself.
Egyptian Arabic (ʿArabī maṣrī: عربی مصری), otherwise known as Coptic Arabic (ʿArabī qabṭī: عربی قبطی), is a group of dialects 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.
In southern Palestine, the Idumaeans inhabited and became numerous in the area west of the Dead Sea, whose names comprised an admixture of Arabic and Canaanite names. [23] Arabs were also living in Egypt even in pre- Christian times, in the Ptolemaic nome called Arabia, in Arsinoites across the Nile, and in Thebaid.
With the birth of the Islamic religion, the Arabic language became fixed to the dialect that was used to write down the Quran. This happened a little under 1500 years ago, and some would say that this is thereby the age of Arabic language.
Widespread use of the Arabic language in Egypt began with the Arabic conquest of the country in 640, during the early medieval period. Arabic did not become the official language of Egypt until the 17th century.
- Dell Markey
Oct 3, 2024 · By the time of the Mamluks, the Arabization of Egypt must have been almost complete. Arabic had been the language of the bureaucracy since the early 8th century and the language of religion and culture even longer.
Jan 31, 2018 · From the 1940s, people all over the Arab world grew used to Egyptian. Generously funded by the state, the Egyptian cinema industry was the third biggest on earth in the 1950s.
