Egyptian Arabic
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| Egyptian Arabic | |
|---|---|
| مصري Maṣrī | |
| Pronunciation | [mɑsˁɾi] |
| Native to | Egypt and a few other countries |
| Native speakers | 76,000,000 + [1] (date missing) |
| Language family |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Writing system | Arabic alphabet |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | arz |
| ISO 639-3 | arz |
Egyptian Arabic (Maṣrī مصري) is a kind of the Arabic language 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. Its origin is 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,[2][3][4] 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.[1] also a lot of people in the Middle East can understand Masri .
References [change]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Egyptian Arabic UCLA Language Materials Project
- ↑ 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.
