Egyptian Arabic
colloquial Egyptian language
Egyptian Arabic edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Egyptian Arabic (Maṣrī مصري) is a kind of the Arabic language of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
Egyptian Arabic | |
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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 | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | arz |
Glottolog | egyp1253 [2] |
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 seventh-century Muslim conquest of Egypt.
Masri was formed also of Copto-Egyptian language of pre-Islamic Egypt,[3][4][5] and other languages such as Turkish.
Egyptian Arabic language is not officially recognized by Egyptian government.
More than 76 million people in Egypt speak Masri. Also a lot of people in the Middle East can understand Masri.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Egyptian Arabic at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Egyptian Arabic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Bishai, Wilson B. "Coptic grammatical influence on Egyptian Arabic". Journal of the American Oriental Society. No.82, pp. 285-289.
- ↑ Youssef (2003), below.