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Contents
- 1 Description
- 2 Word List(s)
- 3 Alphabet and Pronunciation
- 4 Language Aids and Dictionaries
- 5 Additional Resources
- 6 References
Description[edit | edit source]
The official language of the Arab Republic of Egypt is Arabic.
The spoken languages are:
- Egyptian Arabic (68%),
- Sa'idi Arabic (29%),
- Northwest Arabian Arabic or (Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic) (1.6%),
- Sudanese Arabic (0.6%),
- Domari (0.3%),
- Nobiin (0.3%),
- Beja (0.1%),
- Siwi
and others.
Additionally, Greek, Armenian and Italian, and more recently, African languages like Amharic and Tigrigna are the main languages of immigrants.
The main foreign languages taught in schools, by order of popularity, are English, French, German and Italian.
Historically Egyptian was spoken, of which the latest stage is Coptic Egyptian. Spoken Coptic was mostly extinct by the 17th century but may have survived in isolated pockets in Upper Egypt as late as the 19th century. It remains in use as the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. It forms a separate branch among the family of Afroasiatic languages. [1]
Word List(s)[edit | edit source]
Modern Standard Arabic
- Arabic Genealogical Word List
- Arabic Vocabulary at ModernStandardArabic
- Useful Arabic phrases at Omniglot
Egyptian Arabic
Sudanese Arabic
- Sudanese Arabic: useful words & phrases at TurningSudanese
- Sudanese Arabic for travellers at SafariJunkie
Domari
Coptic Egyptian
Alphabet and Pronunciation[edit | edit source]
Modern Standard Arabic
- Arabic Phonology at Wikipedia
- Modern Standard Arabic Alphabet and Pronunciation at Omniglot
- Arabic Alphabet at TheArabicLearner
- The Arabic Alphabet at Optilingo
Egyptian Arabic
Sa'idi Arabic
Domari
Nobiin
Beja
Siwi
Coptic Egyptian
Language Aids and Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
Modern Standard Arabic
Egyptian Arabic
Sa'idi Arabic
Northwest Arabian Arabic or (Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic)
- About: Northwest Arabian Arabic at Dbpedia
- Northwest Arabian Arabic at Wikivisually
- Dictionary English - Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic at Glosbe
Sudanese Arabic
Domari
Nobiin
Beja
Siwi
Coptic Egyptian
- Coptic Egyptian Grammar at Wikipedia
- Dictionary English - Coptic at Glosbe
- The Coptic Language at Suscopts
Additional Resources[edit | edit source]
- Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm), and Pimsleur (Firm). Conversational modern standard Arabic. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. Available at: WorldCat.
- Abboud, Peter F, and Ernest N McCarus. Elementary modern standard Arabic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Available at: WorldCat.
- Coptic: Ancient language still spoken today at EgyptToday
- Four Languages of Egypt at AlphaOmegaTranslations
- Egyptian language at Wikipedia
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Egypt," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt#Languages, accessed 8 Apr 2021.
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