The language of Egypt

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), May 25, 2010 at 18:20

Hi Ahmed

>The reason is obvious, we had never spoke Arabic in our whole history and Arabic never been our language.

This is very true

>Egyptian Arabic have borrowed a lot of words from arabic

Very true just like let us say the Persian language is 20% loan words from Arabic but it is nontheless the language of Iran and Coptic has 20% loan words from Greek but it is nontheless the language of Egypt

>like English borrowed a lot of words from french.

Sure

> the real Egyptian language were actually afro-asitic language like arabic, hebrew, and berber which means all these languages were close in the first place which made it easy for Egyptian to get and borrow arabic words.

Not true, Egyptian is not a Semitic language and it is really very different (grammar, syntax etc...) from the three main semitic languages Hebrew, al-lugha al-suryaniya wa al-lugha al-3arabiyya

> And let us not forget that Arabs themselves are half Egyptian because Hajar the wife of abraham was Egyptian.

Oh stop it. You are not an Arab Are you aware that 92% of Egyptians are of Cotpic stock (see Gason Wietz) because the importation of Arabs into Egypt was very limited

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