History of the Egyptian Language

History of the Egyptian Language, Archaic Egyptian, Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, Coptic, Writing Systea, Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, Coptic
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[@xaph5575]

The transition from Old to Middle to Late Egyptian is gorgeous

[@someinteresting]

And from Archaic, and to Demotic and Coptic.

[@alangervasis]

Coptic was used as a spoken language in some parts of egypt even as late as 19th century before it became just a liturgical language.

[@retf8977]

That isn't true. Coptic majorily fell put of fashion during the mamluk times and barely had any day-to-day presence at the start of Ottoman times.

[@alangervasis]

​@@retf8977 No. That is true. Although Egyptian muslims didn't use it, Coptic was used as a spoken language by some local coptic orthodox christians in egypt until the 19th century before being completely replaced by arabic in the late 19th century. Literary: c. 3rd - c. 14th century AD Spoken: c. 3rd - c. 17th or 19th century AD Liturgical: c. 3rd century AD - present

[@ogolow570]

@hiOOxkr magkis 🧢🧢🧢

[@shakalalalalkh1098]

@hiOOxkr magkis i said the same about your mama

[@ASMM1981EGY]

@hiOOxkr magkis you're vomiting, not true Arabic is rubbish, the Egyptian Language is the language of superior science, knowledge and literature

[@idkman858]

The language of one of the first writing systems. Very nice 👍

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@GrigRP]

Indeed. Almost all other writing systems are derived from this. Including Latin.

[@alangervasis]

@@GrigRP Lol..No..Latin arose from indo european languages.

[@GrigRP]

@@alangervasis Lol, no. Learn what a writing system is.

[@LSSD1292]

@@alangervasis The Latin alphabet rose from the greek alphabet (the western variant)

[@abloodorange5233]

It would be nice if Egypt made Coptic an official language along with Arabic and attempted to preserve it.

[@9_9876]

unfortunately radical islamism and complete denial and disrespect of historical indigenous peoples are the rule in all Arab countries

[@9_9876]

@@egy6434 they aren't treating berbers correctly and make up "arab berber" identities to keep their state together and give themselves legitimacy so that they aren't considered one of the other 20 artificial arab states. But then any attempts of berber pride and nationalism are suppressed and arrested in morocco and in algeria they are persecuting their kayble minority

[@theegyptianpharaonicking3849]

It's very hard to do this

[@ramsses5175]

@@9_9876 modern egyptian ( لهجة مصرية) mix between ancient egyptian and Arabic and we love it

[@bozomori2287]

@@9_9876 You are ignorant and not raised properly.

[@ryanwidjaja4252]

Originally, this language was spoken in an ancient and prosperous empire. Then, the Persians and Macedonian Greeks (under Alexander the Great) came and conquered Egypt. When Egypt was ruled by the Ptolemaic dynasty and the Roman Empire, the Egyptian language began to decline in favor of Greek. Later, after the Arabs conquered Egypt, the Egyptian language (known as Coptic by this point) declined further in favor of Arabic. Today, it is still spoken by the Coptic minorities in Egypt, but mainly as a liturgical language.

[@bozomori2287]

Egyptian arabic is distinct and influential.

[@ryanwidjaja4252]

@@bozomori2287 Oh yes, I've heard that it is popular among Arabs because many Arabic movies and TV shows came from Egypt. I've never heard how Egyptian Arabic (and other Arabic dialects) sounds like though. I love Iraqi Arabic as well, because it is also influenced by ancient pre-Arabic languages just like Egyptian Arabic.

[@jaif7327]

@@ryanwidjaja4252 every single arabic dialect is influenced by a language from berber to semitic and romance languages some even went independent (maltese)

[@arolemaprarath6615]

@@ryanwidjaja4252 I hope Aramaic, Coptic, Berber languages make a comeback to replace Arabic.

[@raymather1742]

@@arolemaprarath6615 lol no one wants that

[@i_likemen5614]

Honestly sad that Coptic is barely spoken anymore. Hopefully one day it will have a resurgence and can exist along side with Egyptian Arabic as the languages of Egypt

[@BobWill1846]

The sad part is that languages don't. We live in a more globalised world, there is limited media to consume if you're just a small minor language. I knew a Chechen feller who was just desperately looking for other Chechen gamers to play games with. Just a bit sad thinking about how he is forced to nearly exclusively speak Russian online because there just aren't that many Chechens out there. And for those that are... well it's easier to just begin speaking in Russian instead of a hail Mary.

[@msb8792]

There is a lot of racism and persecution towards the Copts in Egypt, so that is highly unlikely, unless they try to make a resurgence in Diaspora. The only native people in the Middle East who have managed to somehow maintain their ancient languages until today are the remnants of the Syriac Community (East Aramaeans, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Maronites), the West Arameans (Maaloula, Bakh'a, Jubba'din), and the Mandeans, and they are all dying out and neglected by the governments and populations of their countries.

[@i_likemen5614]

@@msb8792 Wait aren't most Copts in Egypt though? All Diaspora copts coming back won't boost their population much

[@msb8792]

@@i_likemen5614 yeah most of them are in Egypt. What I meant is it’s almost impossible for the Copts to preserve their language inside Egypt due to the persecution they face. It would probably easier for the diaspora communities to work on a way to preserve the language, just like the Syriacs do in diaspora.

[@Felinal_19]

​@@BobWill1846 It's sad. Most likely because Ramzan sold out the Chechen republic to Russia instead of continuing the fight for independence

[@geodim3904]

Much love to Egypt our ancient brothers 🇬🇷🇪🇬

[@uncertifiedlinguist8396]

As a third party, despite being your nemesis, A Persian comes through and appreciates both of you 🇮🇷. We were the nurses of human civilization.

[@ASMM1981EGY]

LOOOOOOOOOOOVE Greece our oldest and first friends, brothers and neighbours 😃💙💙

[@ASMM1981EGY]

@@uncertifiedlinguist8396 😄😄😄😄 This is true my friend I was going to tell you so, have a nice day

[@arolemaprarath6615]

@@ASMM1981EGY Hope Egypt becomes Egypt again. Coptic may soon replace Arabic. Jesus bless you my brother.

[@uncertifiedlinguist8396]

@Kong King Greece nursed philosophy and politics, Egypt nursed societal structure, Persia nursed human rights/tolerance and art.

[@anastsi6767]

Coptic language was heavily influenced by Greek,if Arabs wouldn't appear,the Egyptian and Greek bonds would have been stronger and more close to each other

[@mahdimehdi445]

Battle of Yarmouk😢

[@anastsi6767]

I would love to see again Coptic language being spoken by Egyptian people alongside Arabic.Anyway the video was great,greetings from Greece to our Egyptian friends and their beautiful civilisation

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@quinnfischer9624]

they should speak coptic instead of arabic. arabic is the language of the colonizers, not native people

[@qsal305]

@@quinnfischer9624it’s the language of natives now .

[@Alsayid]

It's too bad that Egypt lost its native language. This happens throughout the world... but in a place that had such an ancient and long-lived history, it's sad to see the last remnants die out so recently.

[@kiuk_kiks]

It lost its native language because the natives who were black Africans were systemically pushed out of the lower Nile by Graeco-Roman invaders and Arabs. Ottomans as well as Persians, Assyrians and Babylonians colonisers didn’t help preserve it too.

[@Jout8-re1ij]

@@kiuk_kiks Why you think they were black africans. You literally belive what Netflix tells you, that Cleopatra was black, while there is clear historical evidence they were white. North-africans have always been white and not black. Same way berbers in the west were also white. Only bellow the big north-african desert in sub-saharan Africa starts to come in black people. North-africans have been genetically found, that even back then were whiter in skin color. How could they also get pushed out, when people typically get assimilated and that mean mixing with other people and that would give the modern egyptian people some black dna, but they have no black dna, because fully black people didnt ever rule Egypt. Please dont next time send misinformation thinking all native people in Africa are black just, because they live in the continent and the western american biased media makes you think so.😂🤦‍♂️

[@kiuk_kiks]

@@Jout8-re1ij A cursory glance at the innumerable motifs that the Nile valley civilisations left would show they’re a dark skinned people found in Africa. You white skinned people wouldn’t survive a week working in the hot African desert sun for 12 hours a day with no shade for decades of your life without skin cancer. All the fake sculptures such as Nefertiti’s bust created by a German white supremacist as well as a Ptolemaic Greek dynasty of Cleopatra that ruled in the late period of ancient Egypt only proves they were black. Cleopatra ruled closer to us historically than to the building of the pyramids. May as well claim that Spanish conquistadors built the pyramids in Mexico and all Amerindian civilisations because their ancestors now dominate Central and South America. Graeco-Roman invasions and colonialism for 1,000 years as well as that of Arabs, Mamluks and Ottomans totally whitener the racial composition of a black ancient Egypt.

[@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809]

Weird to think that people were still speaking a form of Ancient Egyptian until well into the 17th-century.

[@unanec]

It's still spoken nowadays by christian egyptians (copts, ~10% of the population) as a liturgical language just latin or hebrew until not so long ago

[@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809]

@@unanec yes, but not as a native language.

[@SchmulKrieger]

@@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809 there are some Egyptians who want a revival and this also to stop Arabic Supremacy.

[@13thdivision70]

@@SchmulKrieger long live Arab in Egypt

[@999mi999]

@@13thdivision70 No

[@brauchebenutzername]

It is so sad, what happened to the coptic language and culture. Best Greetings to the Coptic=Aegyptian!

[@xrhstoslalalala8269]

Love our ancient brothers from Greece Such a great video 🙂

[@ASMM1981EGY]

Love Greece our oldest and first friends, brothers, and neighbours 😃🇪🇬💙

[@ASMM1981EGY]

@@antonmuzik 😄😄😂😄😄😃 none of your business azzzhwl

[@stephmod7434]

Γεια

[@ColoringAHouse]

​@@antonmuzikdo you know what "history" is?

[@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

It would be nice to one day see one of these timeline maps of the development of the Afroasiatic languages. I know there is probably nowhere near enough verifiable information available yet.

[@darktyrannosaurus22]

My bet is that Early Proto-Afro-Asiatic was spoken in the River Jordan valley or Northwestern Hejaz sometime around 20000 years ago. Was it the Language of the peoples associated with Natufian Pre-pottery Neolithic culture? Probably

[@slyninja4444]

Well, he already did Semitic and Egyptian. He just needs to do Berber, Chadic, Omotic, and Cushidic.

[@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

@@darktyrannosaurus22 the contentious bit for me is if Proto-Afroasiatic was developed in Asia (ie West Asia / Middle East) or Africa. My bet, like yours is on the former. But there is a case for it to have originated in the Ethiopian region.

[@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

@@slyninja4444 true. And sounds easy enough, but tracing these back to a common origin is the tricky bit because they separated well before there are any written/inscribed records.

[@darktyrannosaurus22]

@@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns I think what we're actually seeing is a sort of subduction zone, with various minor families of Afro-Asiatic languages being displaced from Arabia into the Horn. Also, search about a potential Cushitic or Para-Cushitic substrate in Southern Arabia.

[@tassop1128]

If Coptic survived today, it'd be the oldest still spoken attested language, 2000 years older than the second oldest, Mycenean Greek. I hope it gets revived like Hebrew and Irish.

[@anz127]

If only the Arab had not displaced the Coptic ... I know that Egypt is one of the most important countries in the Arab World, but at the same time it is one of the most different, although many want to erase it, Egypt is before Egyptian than Arab, so It was and it will be Hopefully I managed to revitalize this ancestral language and do not let it fall into oblivion.

[@Bracus.Reghusk]

It is still spoken by some rare Coptic communities.

[@tassop1128]

@@Bracus.Reghusk fake news

[@Bracus.Reghusk]

@@tassop1128 There are still 300 people in Egypt who speak it fluently in their families and a few thousand who master it but do not practice it, then the Coptic churches use this language from memory right?

[@tassop1128]

@@Bracus.Reghusk show evidence? Never heard of native speakers. Yes it has liturgical use but that doesn't make it less dead.

[@wsm2545]

Amazing work as always, these kind of videos are truly masterpieces, this channel is so underrated. Respect from Veneto, Μπράβο κοστας 👊

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you very much

[@brigantiasmemerepository6439]

I hope Coptic will one day replace Egyptian Arabic; it's sad when ethnicity and culture don't match.

[@kiuk_kiks]

Coptic Christians are just a sect of Graeco-Roman Christians who resisted arabisation and islamisation. They’re as native to Egypt as the foreign Arabs are. Coptic is a Greek-Demotic creole. Coptic isn’t native either and the natives are now called “Nubians” by the mixed invaders who now call themselves Egyptians.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Berber next! great to see all of the Afro-asiatic families being covered

[@bozomori2287]

Berber is not dead and should be in this video. Because there is an Oiasis west of the nile that is Berber speaking. Also there was a berber tribe that migrated and ruled upper egypt around the 18th century. Also the Fatimid caliphate that founded Cairo, was basically an army of Berber clans led by an Iraqi clergyman.

[@bozomori2287]

@hiOOxkr magkis No thats a myth. I give you historic facts. Dont give me myths.

[@bozomori2287]

@hiOOxkr magkis Are Jews arabs?

[@bozomori2287]

@hiOOxkr magkis Are jews arab? Answer.

[@bozomori2287]

@hiOOxkr magkis 😂

[@rifqymaulanaazhar573]

it is very unfortunate that Copts experience oppression and discrimination in their own homeland, what's worse is that they are discriminated against by Arabized Copts, besides that the official name of the state of Egypt is so ridiculous as "the Arab republic of Egypt" as if Egypt wants to be a homogeneous country even though there are ethnic minorities who are native

[@tatjemen4443]

يجب علينا أن نعلم أطفالنا اللغة الإيچيبتية (القبطية) و الانجليزيه و لا نعلمهم اللغة العربية لأنها لغة إحتلال

[@AliHassanSalafi]

ما هذا الغـباء، انت تتكلم باللغة العربية! يا انك من مـضحك.

[@yaseensharawi8034]

ههههههههه بتوفيق

[@USS_297]

الإنجليزية أيضا لغة احتلال ههههه

[@retf8977]

I didn't expect that... amazing video from a fan from Egypt

[@BranEspin]

Thank you very much for creating these pieces of art!

[@CostasMelas]

I'm glad to hear that. Thank you

[@BranEspin]

@@CostasMelas you're welcome :)

[@gula_rata]

So modern Egyptians can't even speak their true native language anymore. They really speak a foreign Non-Egyptian language.

[@CH-tn3fn]

Because they were colonized by Arabs.

[@angelabender8132]

Our guide told us that some educated people in Tunisia, refuse to speak arabic in favor of the French language Evidently when there is a choice we tend to prefer the language that speaks to our intellectual mind and to our heart I too made my linguistic choice a long time ago…

[@il967]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@il967]

Arabic bad!1!1

[@mahmoudbenchehida9315]

I am Tunisian myself and this information is totally wrong. The only people who "refuse" to speak arabic are Tunisians who were born in France and can't speak Arabic properly so they prefer to speak in a language they are better at. Regarding "elite", it seems that true elite are now switching to English in the professional context in lieu of French.

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

@@mahmoudbenchehida9315 wow, it's like colonialism is still going.

[@angelabender8132]

@@mahmoudbenchehida9315 I cannot disprove your assertion as I could not have disproved the guide assertion who happened to have been a known figure in television since children recognized him… This was 16 years ago, so perhaps he meant what he said in reference to some higher class of people, who are snobs such as in Europe nobility spoke French till last century. Now I am sure that migration has its own consequences English is the easiest language to understand and to speak so it’s becoming the international language of the globe Anyway My regards 😀

[@mazenmarzouk7944]

May God revive Coptic language in Egypt again by adding a language of study by the Ministry of Education. Thank you very much. Ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ 👋🏼.

[@gwynedd4023]

great work this is fascinating i would love to see celtic Languages

[@bleddynwolf8463]

they've already done that video

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you. I have done the video about the Celtic languages

[@bleddynwolf8463]

@@CostasMelas one of my personal favourites, i might add

[@gwynedd4023]

@@CostasMelas cool i will have to check that out

[@ermin2248]

F to pay respect

[@LCMM2150]

Wow! Fascinating! I didn't know Coptic had resisted until the 18th. century!

[@FeloLato]

19th

[@victorien3704]

Resist???

[@redfrank773]

@@victorien3704 yes resist, problem?

[@nsk370]

One of the very earliest written languages and the one with the longest historicaly attested presence, no other language lasted and was continuiously being writen down and recorded for that long. Islam and Arabic sadly killed it

[@qaz1001]

Also Christianity and greeks

[@JcDizon]

@@qaz1001 Wasn't it Christianity that made sure that Coptic is still alive? It's only still alive today because it's the liturgy language of Coptic Christians.

[@theegyptianpharaonicking3849]

When the Egyptians converted to Christianity, they forgot their history and language. The Byzantines were clever when they made the Egyptians embrace this new religion. Glory to Horus 🦅🙏

[@nsk370]

@@JcDizon exactly, the only reason it even survived as long as it did is because Coptic Christians spoke it with each other and used it for their liturgy. In fact, although nobody speaks it as a daily language, it is still kept alive by the Coptic liturgy

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

@@qaz1001 no because coptic became a language of Christianity

[@manetho5134]

Great work from Egypt, to this day there is village in upper Egypt near Luxor called Az Zayniyyah Qebli or Az Zeineyah Qibl (الزينية) whose Christians still speak Coptic

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you. I did not know the existence of such a village. So, Coptic is alive language

[@micahistory]

So sad how this ancient language has literally almost disappeared

[@someinteresting]

A very nice touch, to add the different scripts. Writing is so intrinsic to Egyptian.

[@Kingofportals]

At least the last surviving still spoken Egyptian language still exists! Thank goodness Coptic has not left us yet! Now it is time for a the Egyptian government to protect it, and make it an official language again, teaching it to kids in school as well! It is one of the last direct connections to the days of the great Pharaohs!

[@Skikdii]

nobody speak coptic plus coptic is not the original language of egypt coptic was influenced by semitic languages and greek

[@quinnfischer9624]

@@Skikdii i personaly know somebody who speaks coptic

[@ValeriusMagni]

@@Skikdii even if it's been influenced it's the original language of Egypt

[@CH-tn3fn]

They won't because it would make it too obvious that Arabs are new comers in Egypt.

[@androtchitchinadze3450]

This language used to the dominant language of the entire Nile river. Yet today it has less than 300 speakers :(. So sad

[@delossantosmendezcesarjesu1184]

Petition: history of the nahuatl language please 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@connormurphy683]

Would love to see this, there's not a lot of resources about how widespread nahuatl was between the conquest and modern period

[@slyninja4444]

That would probably include the entire Uto-Aztecan language family.

[@herrmajestat]

Things are really heating up as soon people mentions things like ”replaced” or ”arabic” lmao

[@thebonkera1221]

its weird to know that the yamnaya people who in the end became modern europeans were only entering europe at this time, while egypt was already flourishing

[@ErmisSouldatos]

Other languages or families: expands, shrinks, moves around, splits into branches etc Egyptian: *N i l e V a l l e y*

[@bletrick3352]

Replaced by Arabic. It's such a shame.

[@xÁstrachèx]

Roman empire connect,times over is egyptian language that.Arabic is a more that! ( sry english is a hard.)

[@bestcitizen9137]

@@xÁstrachèx The Roman Empire allowed the egyptian language to exist and didn't strictly impose latin on them.

[@lukasdutli3473]

@@xÁstrachèx 6:17 That was roughly the transition from roman to arab rule. And also almost immediately there were much less coptic speakers. The arabs were more keen on assimilating their subjects than the romans. Thats just a fact.

[@GrigRP]

Lol no, the Byzantines and Romans killed it. Then it was liberated by Rashiduns and Ummayads thankfully.

[@lukasdutli3473]

@@GrigRP hmm I wonder why nobody speaks it... But why are you so upset? It's just a language.

[@CrannTV]

there's nothing more sad than seeing the last line of spoken Egyptian die out like that, I hope Egypt tries to save the Coptic language

[@ZeekoWay]

Salute and blessings 🙏 to our Coptic Christian brothers, who resist until today ✝️💪🕊️

[@jmithab2190]

I'm coptic and we aren't "resisting" instead we are living peacefully we our fellow egyptians no Matter the religion. Salute and blessing to you too

[@ASMM1981EGY]

We Egyptian Muslims are Copts we're Coptic Muslims.

[@gromosvidaselvagem]

Hugs chistians Coptics ☦☦ FROM BRAZIL ✝️✝️✝️🇧🇷

[@ValeriusMagni]

@@ASMM1981EGY how do you call Coptic that follow the ancient religion?

[@eyaletofegypt-9669]

You shut up, Christ is not better than Muslims, Lol

[@Skikdii]

Why does everyone cry in the comments Egypt never lost its culture plus egypt got invaded many times by many nations and nobody cry about that people who say that its sad don't realise that their countries were romanized slavified germanified too

[@SorceressWitch]

Westerners see Egypt as theirs.

[@khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475]

Great video, but I expected showing Egyptian Arabic a successor language to Coptic, although Coptic was erased as the time went on, it also took several centuries for Egyptians to fully adopt Arabic and that's simply how Egyptian Arabic was born. Just like Coptic which is a result of Greek and Demotic/Late Egyptian and it also took time for Coptic to become a language.

[@danielforeroc]

But Coptic was still egyptian, just with greek influence, while arabic is not an egyptian language.

[@meme-potentialsearch8010]

Arabic nationalism doesn't works in this segment of eastern history

[@khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475]

@@meme-potentialsearch8010 Nor does Pharaonic and Greek nationalism. Modern Egypt is a result of many centuries of intermixing between different peoples. Even the oldest Egyptians in predynastic times were a mix of Asiatics (North) and Africans (South).

[@ASMM1981EGY]

@@khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475 I'm a Genetic Anthropologist and genetic studies proves your saying is unscientific nonsense, Egypt is demographically a homogeneous country with the major ethnicity being Egyptians who still form the majority since ancient times till now, ans the ethnic minorities that came to Egypt like Greeks and Arabs...etc form no more than 4 to 7% of the total population. Egypt is not a melting pot, Egypt is genetically Egyptian with traces of genetic minorities at 4 to 7% according to our studies and researches. Idioticignorants like you shall learn before spreading nonsense. Also, ancient Egyptians are not mixed Asians with Africans, genetically the ancient Egyptians are a Hamitic Mediterranean North African ethnicity, not mixed with Asians.

[@Luey_Luey]

the coptic language was descended from egyptian, whereas egyptian arabic is a derivative of arabic; sure, there was probably a lot of loanwords and influence on coptic from greek, and on egyptian arabic from coptic, but it doesn't change what the language is derived from at its core I would say it is comparable to english - english has a LOT of latin and french influence and loanwords and derivatives, but at its core it is a germanic language, derived from anglo-saxon which shares common ancestry with german, dutch etc; it is not descended from Latin or French

[@theegyptianpharaonicking3849]

I can speak The Egyptian language 💖🇪🇬 I have learned it 𓊪𓂋𓅱𓏲𓂧 𓏏𓅱 𓃀 𓎼𓊪𓏏𓏭𓄿𓈖💖🇪🇬💖

[@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809]

Coptic?

[@theegyptianpharaonicking3849]

@@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809 Coptic and hieroglyphs.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Nice

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Make Egypt Coptic again!

[@SadSvit-d2x]

@@papazataklaattiranimam Make Egyptian Christians(Copts ) Great Again

[@NM-hr9eu]

Please: Could you make a video about Amerindian languages

[@solomon4554]

The Amerindian languages are not a single family

[@MASSNSSN-]

All indigenous languages excluded in the last century from the Middle East to North Africa must be revived

[@loodi3138]

Arabic gigachad end them all

[@lekevire]

@@loodi3138 Arabic virgin*

[@CommanderPaulB]

Modern Egypt always wants to get those ancient Sculptures back-but do they deserve them? That really shows how Egyptian culture died long ago.

[@CommanderPaulB]

@midoabolila9532 Yeah that’s right but the problem is that both the Egyptian State and the European (British) ”Archeologists“ don’t reflect on how such old things should be treated. It’s not good to just ship the things from London to Quairo only to let them dust there. But yeah you’re right about that

[@ahmedlorentz6702]

It's very sad that Egyptians speak Arabic. After the Arab occupation of Egypt, the Arabic language and the Islamic religion were imposed.

[@il967]

Isn't your name Ahmed?

[@ahmedlorentz6702]

@@il967 Ya, I am Egyption atheist My Islamic name is what I was born with.

[@begum2583]

Egyptians speak Arabic bcz they r Arab. Native Egyptian people assimilated and perished due to Arab migrations.

[@il967]

@@begum2583 No, they adopted Arabic. Immigration from Arabs didn't significantly impact the genepool

[@begum2583]

@@il967 copts are close to ancient egyptians not modern Arabic egyptians. If you claim that the ancient Egyptians were your ancestors, your Arab ancestors would likely have been embarrassed by you

[@Nubrezyu]

This prove that Arabic is a foreign language in Egypt

[@redacted7060]

Egypt is an Arabic country

[@Nubrezyu]

@@redacted7060 cringe

[@kw9296]

So was Greek and latin

[@ilovecookies2532]

According to your logic every language in the world is forgien

[@il967]

France will become a Muslim country. seethe frenchoid

[@ASMM1981EGY]

Please make a video for the spread of the Egyptian writing systems: Pre-dynastic proto-Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Dynastic Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Egyptian cursive Hieroglyphics, Egyptian Hieratic, Egyptian cursive Hieratic, Egyptian Demotic, Egyptian Coptic Alphabet & Egyptian Proto-Sinatic Alphabet

[@antonibazejewski2552]

All writing systems come from egyptian hieroglyphics. Only East Asia use Chinese based scripts.

[@dharma_mane]

I’m learning Coptic in order to recite chants to the old gods. Thank you for this history lesson!

[@ValeriusMagni]

Old gods? Really?

[@dharma_mane]

@@ValeriusMagni Yes. The original gods.

[@i_likemen5614]

Use it to recite the chants of Christ

[@dharma_mane]

@@i_likemen5614 I’m not a follower of Christ tho…

[@davidmccarroll2280]

Is there a neo pagan movement in Egypt? As in the pre abrahamic religion

[@Kavian156]

😓😢so sadly

[@moncef9778]

Not sad majorité in Egypt happy

[@esti-od1mz]

Coptics shold really try to revive this beautiful language. Hope they do the same as the jews with hebrew

[@ciceroalexandar6184]

People in comment section should not think that these forms of Egyptian languages as one single one, for each one form is not intelligible to the other, it is like the Ind-European langugae and other late language that are descendant from it like german and italian. In fact some linguistic date back the Indo-European languages to the same period of time as archaic Egyptian.

[@devinsmith4790]

0:04 Naqada/Predynastic Period 1:12 Early Dynastic Period 1:49 Old Kingdom 2:29 1st Intermediate Period 2:39 Middle Kingdom 3:12 2nd Intermediate Period 3:20 New Kingdom 3:58 3rd Intermediate Period 4:31 Late Period 4:57 Hellenistic/Ptolemaic Period 5:21 Roman Period 6:15 Medieval/Islamic Era 7:25 Early Modern Period 7:54 Modern Period

[@naser766]

Love Egypt from Saudi Arabia🇸🇦♥️🇪🇬.

[@zombieat]

you really did a number on them.

[@bozomori2287]

@@zombieat you really are sick.

[@zombieat]

@@bozomori2287 why? isn't that the truth?

[@thedstorm8922]

@@zombieat what truth?

[@thedstorm8922]

@Kong King lol bro go learn English before talking about Islam And what Islam did to Egypt exactly?

[@ASMM1981EGY]

Thank you so much for this awesome video about my beloved sacred Mother Tongue 💙💙💙🇪🇬

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@DannyPotato]

You speak Coptic?

[@ASMM1981EGY]

@@DannyPotato Coptic and Middle Egyptian yes dear

[@pwnmeisterage]

The arrival of Islam - and Arabic - suddenly halted the expansion of Egyptian language/culture, then reversed it, then basically extinguished it. Egypt evidently prevailed, survived, prospered, expanded through numerous confrontations with invincible warlords, armies, emperors, and gods before being halted by this new monotheism.

[@il967]

Historical revisionism

[@pwnmeisterage]

@@il967 One language completely faded away, it's basically extinct aside from specialized scholarly and ceremonial uses. But the people still speak a common language ... so obviously something new must've replaced something old.

[@dogma2763]

Why don’t Egyptian government revive Coptic?

[@loodi3138]

Because it's not developed language it will take much time to do it plus Egypt has its unique arabic accent

[@TiagoVoltaire]

Is Coptic like Latin to Christians in Egypt?

[@theegyptianpharaonicking3849]

No it's not

[@seethrough_treeshrew]

Yes it isn't

[@SadSvit-d2x]

1. Egyptians are Christians 2. Latin is just a language of Catholic church, not the whole Christianity. Greek, Old Church Slavonic, Russian, Aramaic, Armenian and Coptic have the same meaning to Christians as latin

[@theegyptianpharaonicking3849]

@@SadSvit-d2x Cry a lot, Byzantine, you will get nothing🤣🤣

[@moncef9778]

@@SadSvit-d2x egybtian Christianity 😂😂😂😂

[@SchmulKrieger]

That's what Arabic Supremacist did to the wonderful Egyptian language. Egyptian is the only language we know that made a full linguistic circle from agglutinative > synthetic > analytic > agglutinative etc.

[@malekaltayari3936]

Just like what the Romans.did to Iberian peninsula .France . And the Italian peninsula

[@SchmulKrieger]

@@malekaltayari3936 the Romans didn't force the peoples to speak Latin in that way or to convert.

[@malekaltayari3936]

@@SchmulKrieger We berbers North Africans the Arabians didn't Force us to speak Arabic to we learn Arabic By Quran and And communication with the Arabs. We had Berber scholars and travelers who took Arabic as an official language, such as Ibn Battuta al-Rahhal, Abbas Ibn Firnas, Ibn Khaldun, the father of sociology and the pride of Tunisia.

[@SchmulKrieger]

@@malekaltayari3936 what the ... is a North African Arabian?

[@malekaltayari3936]

@@SchmulKrieger no Most are berbers kzbin.info/www/bejne/p37ZanqvmJVrhpo

[@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642]

Very great.

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@christopherellis2663]

I used to work with a Copt, who knew English, French, Arabic, and Coptic.

[@matiasgamalieltolmosuarez790]

That's amazing, congrats🎉🎉 someone know what software or app did he use to do these maps?

[@chrishalliwell3610]

when islam come to egypt, the egyptian spoke Coptic, the Coptic alphabet is a modified form of the Greek alphabet with several additional letters borrowed from the Demotic Egyptian scrip

[@vasekcz]

Yesss what you are doing is wonderful 👍

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@youssefmoubarak3964]

this is very painful to watch as an egyptian fortunately I can speak coptic with the old pronounciation and I intend to teach it to my children Ⲡⲁⲓ ⲟⲩⲙⲟⲕϩ ⲉⲙⲁϣⲱ ϧⲁ ⲟⲩⲣⲉⲙⲛⲕⲏⲙⲓ ⲛ̀ⲡⲁϣⲁⲓ ϯϣⲥⲁϫⲓ ⲙⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛⲕⲏⲙⲓ ⲛⲉⲙ ϩⲓ ⲡⲓϫⲟⲥ ⲛ̀ⲁⲡⲁⲥ ⲟⲩⲟϩ ϯϩⲓⲧⲟⲧ ⲉϭⲓⲥⲃⲱ ⲙⲡⲁϣⲏⲣⲓ ⲑⲁⲓ

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Nice. Egypt must be Coptic again

[@Skikdii]

@@papazataklaattiranimam Turkey must be galatian luwian phrygian greek armenian aramean hittite palaic lydian again

[@Zelgah]

@@Skikdii Yes i agree

[@Skikdii]

@@Zelgah fr

[@tatjemen4443]

يجب علينا أن نعلم أطفالنا اللغة الإيچيبتية و الانجليزيه و لا نعلمهم اللغة العربية لأنها لغة إحتلال

[@АлександрСкрипачев-е5ы]

Чёрт этот язык существовал несколько тысяч лет и тут просто исчез, жаль. Вот что делает ислам

[@igorxwt5268]

HOW GREAT VIDEO

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@themadmanwithapen]

Even the brightest flame goes out with a whimper in the end.

[@nobodyandnoname]

Make Egypt great again!

[@moncef9778]

Egybt want khilafa

[@thedstorm8922]

Yeah let us reestablish the caliphate of Ciro

[@liliqua1293]

Remember that Egyptian Arabic today has a fairly strong Coptic substrate and it was actually useful in reconstructing the pre-Greco-Bohairic pronunciation of Coptic/Late Demotic.

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

Still not a separate language since at the end of the day, its Arabic.

[@liliqua1293]

@@GreaterAfghanistanMovement there is no measure that makes Egyptian Arabic "still Arabic" that doesn't also make Russian "still Slavic" or French "still Romance".

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

@@liliqua1293 Russian is a Slavic language just like Arabic is Semitic. Idk what you are trying to argue against here exactly.

[@liliqua1293]

@@GreaterAfghanistanMovement lol right back at you. Egyptian Arabic is an Arabic language with a Coptic substratum. You just want my comment to say more than it actually says so you can continue your crusade lol

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

@@liliqua1293 Ok and?

[@khaledzaki11]

This very accurate acually

[@gromosvidaselvagem]

Hugs chistians Coptics ☦☦ FROM BRAZIL ✝️✝️✝️🇧🇷

[@eyaletofegypt-9669]

You shut up, Christ is not better than Muslims

[@mazenmarzouk7944]

Nuh Copts aren't only Christians Copts are all Egyptian And andmay be to Copts Muslims, Copts Christians, Copts Jews, Copts atheists

[@daru124]

Verde, está canijo ver como masacraron esa hermosa lengua y cultura

[@Tortellobello45]

Why the hell during the Late Kingdom the Egyptians returned to the Middle Egyptian???I really don't get it 🧐

[@AnsgarisIoannes]

Beautiful map! A greeting from Colombia. I Wish a map about Spanish America for countries

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@bozomori2287]

@@CostasMelas your video is cool but the comments to it are full of ignorant haters.

[@chrishalliwell3610]

Islam entered Persia Iran in 650 AD until now Persia Iran official language is Persian also: Islam entered Morocco and Algeria in 670 AD, Morocco and Algeria choose Arabic to be their official language, but until this day the Berber languages is used and teached in Morocco and Algeria also: islam entered indonesia in 13th century, until now indonesia official language is indonesian and there is more and more countries that kept their ancient language after islam

[@Sam-hq1to]

Respect for persians. They protected their great language and culture. I wish same for egypt

[@i_likemen5614]

Iranians are such chads. Foreigners have invaded them so many times, but they still held on to their culture, and they even conquered their invaders culturally (Turks are a great example of that)

[@ibrahimk8271]

actually farsi be alive because of turkics speacialy samanids. they adopted farsi as language of state and supported it against arabic. still today farsi have a lot of arabic loanwords so farsi people are not held their culture, their culture is forced by turkics.

[@fanstargateiloveuniverse]

Can you make a video about all the christian saints of the world throughout the history? And of course separate videos about other religions’ saints and main figures?

[@thothhand]

how did middle egyptian survive that much and not late egyptian? was it used as a religious ceremonial language or was it a dialect?

[@Ziuk1990]

Not exactly, it was the language of high society, due to the fact the Middle Kingdom was considered the golden age of Egyptian literature. Even centuries later the period's writing style and language was thoroughly taught and imitated. Think of it as if Shakespearean or maybe even Chaucerian English was still used today on daily basis.

[@matt1997Fr]

pitty that the language replaced with Arabic the didn't last to our era. 😔

[@magnahungaria8123]

True profie!

[@yonekamil1235]

i cried

[@moncef9778]

No

[@user-gi4sp9xt5g]

@@moncef9778 Okay arap. 🤲🏿

[@JohnDoe-ej9qd]

The Nag Hammadi is pretty neat.

[@Vifnis]

6:09 >islam happens >egpyt & coptic go into extinction >"it's a religion of peace"

[@marcusfiuza4561]

"Não se amoldem ao padrão deste mundo, mas transformem-se pela renovação da sua mente, para que sejam capazes de experimentar e comprovar a boa, agradável e perfeita vontade de Deus."

[@MT-ij1kg]

Actually, Coptic is not a specific language. it's a combination of Greek and Egyptic. The Egyptic language transformed to Arabic after islam, which is not so difficult scenario as Arabic and Egyptic comes from the same Ahmeric origin. Sudanese is also has the same history.

[@nam2203]

But still the closest thing to the Ancient Egyptian

[@liliqua1293]

That's not true. Coptic is Egyptian with a Greek adstratum (influence). Arabic is Semitic. And when Arabic came to Egypt, it supplanted Coptic and today Egyptian Arabic has a Coptic substratum (underlying influence). Sudanese is related to Egyptian Arabic but has a stronger Nubian adstratum/substratum.

[@smokingcat7960]

Nice Video

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@edwardbrown3721]

Question for Egyptians in the comments, would you approve a Coptic resurgence?

[@معازطارق-ذ8ج]

absolutley

[@Spinozathecat]

Yes

[@CH-tn3fn]

Coptic is a minority discriminated against in Egypt. No chance for a resurgence.

[@edwardbrown3721]

@@CH-tn3fn I was talking about the language

[@shivpatel733]

Can you do one on the Native American/Indian languages?

[@Nubrezyu]

Reject arabic, embrace coptic

[@redacted7060]

No

[@GrigRP]

Let the tears flow

[@Nubrezyu]

@@GrigRP ok muslim

[@GrigRP]

@@Nubrezyu Keep crying. Weep, boy.

[@crazyraptor2907]

Cope

[@micahistory]

Please visit Micahistory 2, it would mean a lot!

[@Ashraf-Hrira]

where is Arabic?!

[@pixistypses5406]

this video was dedicated to real Egyptian language and not Arabic

[@Ashraf-Hrira]

​@@pixistypses5406 then by your own logic Coptic language also shouldn't be here because it's just an Egyptian Greek dialect

[@pixistypses5406]

@@Ashraf-Hrira not really since Coptic still had its own roots, despite having other language's influence, even Arabic copyed lot of it from ancient Egyptian

[@Ashraf-Hrira]

@@pixistypses5406 tbh everyone copied from ancient Egyptian in the Arab world Egypt is nicknamed ام الدنيا Om El-Donia translate to mother of the world for a good reason

[@Ashraf-Hrira]

@@pixistypses5406 nope not true at all when Arabs conquered Egypt from the romans Egypt under their rule stayed majority Christian and speaking the Coptic language for a very long time we Egyptians were the ones who converted and start to learning Arabic and use it instead of Coptic even majority of Christians started to speak Arabic and leave Coptic simply because Arabic is superior it's a shame that you people just hate on Arabic without even giving it a chance and learning about why all of North Africa abounded their languages and replace it with the much superior language and you come and tell us Egyptians to replace Arabic with an inferior dead Greek language here is a video from it you may understand why Arabic is the greatest language ever kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaDIXmmsg76FecU

[@bluepelasgosartfields3568]

Egypt very good people !

[@xÁstrachèx]

Pls The Maori language! Hello from Turkey!

[@CostasMelas]

It is an Austronesian Language (Eastern Polynesian). I have made a video about the whole family

[@DRAGON_G09]

You are the Best Congratulations

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@islam_thegreat]

So sad how the arabs wiped these cultures ? Egyptians are still do (FGM) , and this charge is attached to Islam, although the rest of the Islamic countries do not do so.

[@abdullahidharar49]

Persians ,asyrians ,grece and Romans invade egypt bevor arabs FGM is cushutic culture

[@malekaltayari3936]

Just like what the Romans.did to Iberian peninsula .France . And the Italian peninsula

[@islam_thegreat]

@@malekaltayari3936 what Romans did to Iberian peninsula ,France And the Italian peninsula?

[@malekaltayari3936]

@@islam_thegreat Wiped the Languages there .

[@Skikdii]

@@islam_thegreat they wiped the gaulish/iberian/celtic culture and romanized and latinized erything

[@chrishalliwell3610]

when Muslim ruled Egypt moved the capital to Fustat and, through the 7th century they retained the existing Byzantine administrative structure with Greek as its language

[@yethv0stik882]

Печалька 😭😭😭

[@mohamedaminelaqbibi3487]

Let's just say just like the assyrian in Syria those languages exist because people just don't want to let theme go