Egyptian Arabic: Language of Pharaohs, Cinema, and a Polyglot Queen

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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:26 - What Is Egyptian Arabic?
2:16 - Ancient Egyptian
5:39 - Middle Ages Arabic
6:46 - Plagues and Prohibitions
7:52 - Egyptian Arabic
12:37 - How Egyptian Got Popular
15:35 - But Is It a Language?
15:35 - Modern Dialects
18:54 - Alphabet & Pronunciation
21:19 - Vocabulary & Writing
23:22 - Grammar
24:55 - Talk Like an Egyptian
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We Asked Egyptians What They Were Doing!
• We Asked Egyptians Wha...
قصتي عن كيف تعلمت لغة العربية كبريطاني (من السعودية لمصر)
• قصتي عن كيف تعلمت لغة ...
How to introduce yourself in Egyption Arabic in 2 minutes 😎
• How to introduce yours...
The Sound of the Ancient Egyptian Language
• The Sound of the Ancie...
ABANOB - Ancient Egyptian New Year
• ABANOB - Ancient Egypt...
Coptic: The Final Ancient Egyptian Language
• Coptic: The Final Anci...
EGYPTIAN LANGUAGES
• EGYPTIAN LANGUAGES: (O...
CLASSICAL / QURANIC ARABIC LANGUAGE
• CLASSICAL / QURANIC AR...
5 Pharaonic Words Egyptians Use Today
• 5 Pharaonic Words Egyp...
5 Egyptian and Greek Words that are Insanely Similar
• 5 Egyptian and Greek W...
• Egyptian Arabic was no...
10 UNBELIEVABLE Egyptian Arabic Words From Italian
• 10 UNBELIEVABLE Egypti...
Ehab Tawfik - Tetraga Fya (Official Music Video )
• Ehab Tawfik - Tetraga ...
CAIRO STATION
• CAIRO STATION
Zahret El Madaen
• Zahret El Madaen
حسين الجسمي - بشرة خير (فيديو كليب) | Hussain Al Jassmi - Boshret Kheir | 2014
• حسين الجسمي - بشرة خير...
The Sound of the Alexandria Egyptian Arabic dialect
• The Sound of the Alexa...
Advice On Learning Egyptian Arabic - Interview With Olly Richards
• Advice On Learning Egy...
Learn MSA VS Egyptian Arabic letter pronunciation (a brain twist)
• Learn MSA VS Egyptian ...
😲😲خمس عجائب مش معروفة في العالم العربي
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Egyptian Arabic Genders
• Egyptian Arabic Genders
English guy speaking Egyptian Arabic after 6 months
• English guy speaking E...
Speaking EGYPTIAN ARABIC!
• Speaking EGYPTIAN ARAB...
What It's Like To Have an Egyptian Friend
• What It's Like To Have...
1950s EGYPTIAN FILM INDUSTRY
• 1950s EGYPTIAN FILM IN...
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[@storylearning]

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[@aimaeyo228]

Can we study here Arabic in a UK university?

[@klonoaphantom1064]

Very interesting video indeed but you got some miss infos here and there , let's start with history . first of all: the liberation of Egypt or what you call "arab invasion of Egypt" is actually that Arabs were liberating Egypt from the Roman invasion and literally all Egyptians view it this way , because Romans were oppressing and persecuting the Egyptians which backfired at them because they were left to fight (Amr ibn Al 'as) and his army alone. in fact not a single Egyptian stood with them in the battle , and the entire country was happy to be free from such racist and oppressive invaders. Secondly : NO, nobody was forced to speak Arabic it's just that Egyptians had to learn Arabic in order to work for the new government, similar to how people all around the world have to learn English to communicate with others. And" al Hakim bamr Allah" was known for being an evil monarch in general , so if he did cut other people's tongues' for speaking a language other than Arabic, then that's because he is a stupid mad man and CAN NOT be taken as an example for all Arab leaders at all. In fact he came 500 years after the arab liberation of Egypt , so mentioning him is totally illogical cuz literally hundreds of kings came before him and NONE of them were forcing Egyptians to speak arabic. I would also like to mention that there is no debate at all on whether Egyptian Arabic is a language or a dialect. literally everyone refers to it as a dialect , in fact as an Egyptian I can say sentences in Egyptian Arabic that would ALMOST fit as a sentence in fusha but with slightly different pronunciation. And These words don't even exist in Egyptian Arabic : (شو ، لبنة). While (تمساح ) and (واحة) are standard Arabic words and have nothing to do with Coptic. And also , that clip of an Egyptian guy talking about Greek loan words in Egyptian Arabic doesn't make any sense because he didn't mention any Greek words at all , he just said some sentences in Egyptian Arabic. lastly : that dancing scene at the very end of the video is unnecessary, and I might even consider it offensive.

[@Abuhmeed77]

hello. About the time around 6:47, the muslims had not forced anything on us really.. before the arabs came we weren’t even speaking much coptic, but greek..

[@user-eh6xe7ms8g]

@@aimaeyo228 no

[@tyronejoshua1613]

Olly makes me want to learn every language in this world

[@alphonsoelm5652]

Right? He is the reason I dived into Arabic so soon

[@antonboludo8886]

Each language is actually a different way of thinking.

[@Sinologist-uq7pv]

I know, right? I feel the same way.

[@_malcolm]

💯

[@nisioisinnerman]

​@@alphonsoelm5652same here with Turkish 👍 ...maybe sort of a precursor to Arabic

[@donnycollection9799]

انا بحب مصر. 🇧🇷 ❤ 🇪🇬

[@EgyptianAhmedgebril1986]

And we love you

[@OmarHatem-tp8hg]

And we love you back

[@rawanmustafa3780]

❤️🇪🇬🇧🇷❤️

[@user-zq9bw5lv6r]

Egypt loves those who love it. You are welcome to Egypt habiby . Thank you from the people of Egypt. We love Brazil and its people. ❤🇧🇷😊

[@user-zq9bw5lv6r]

In Egypt in Ramadan we say " WHawi WHawi ya WHawi eyoha" means In the ancient Egyptian language, the moon has appeared, and it is also a greeting to the Egyptian Queen Ehotep whose son Ahmose expelled the Hyksos from Egypt🇪🇬❤

[@TheRealBrook1968]

Cleopatra Ptolemy would have spoken Greek as her native tongue as she was Macedonian. Her second language was probably Latin and her third language would have been Egyptian (Coptic being the most recent version) which would have been similar to Greek in written and spoken form. One can still go to the Coptic Orthodox churches and hear it spoken.

[@user-yh1nm1vy3i]

Perfect timing, I was just starting to learn Arabic with Egyptian dialect!

[@ndorobei4391]

Fun fact: Ancient Egyptian was still spoken until 17th century before fully replaced by Arabic.

[@user-zq9bw5lv6r]

Your statement is wrong. When the Romans occupied Egypt, they banned the ancient Egyptian language, distorted the Coptic language, and used it to communicate with the Egyptian people, and here the language was destroyed.

[@mostafaelbrenge2640]

​@@user-zq9bw5lv6r They only forced the Roman letters to replace hieroglyphics otherwise why did they make the Rosetta stone And btw what he said is true the last person recorded to speak Ramnkama (aka ancient Egyptian) was a lady from upper Egypt who died around that time or at the 13th century I don't remember the exact date

[@user-zq9bw5lv6r]

@@mostafaelbrenge2640 I am Egyptian and I was born and my grandparents were in Alexandria. Do you know more about our history than us?

[@mostafaelbrenge2640]

@@user-zq9bw5lv6r اه اعرف انا من اسوان اصلا

[@user-zq9bw5lv6r]

@@mostafaelbrenge2640 يبقى بتكلمنى انجليزى ليه وحتى ولو غلطان بردوا لان الرومان هما اللى بوظوا اللغة المصرية القديمة لما خلوا المصريين يتخلوا عنها ويستعملوا القبطى بدلها ده غير ان الرومان حرفوا فى القبطية عشان تبقى سهلة بالنسبة لهم كتير مما جعل اللغة تضيع وليس العرب من اضاعوا لغتنا وكره المصريون بالفعل الروم لذلك اقتربوا كثيرا للعرب واتقنوا لغتهم.

[@nerd26373]

This is an amazing topic to discuss. We will always support you, Olly. Just know that your insights are well worth listening to.

[@corinna007]

This, Old Norse, and Old English are the old languages that I would like to learn most.

[@SuperGary63]

Buen video. No entendí nada porque no hablo inglés, pero me gustó mucho la edición, la historia y el ritmo. 10/10.

[@EgyptianAhmedgebril1986]

Soy de ejipto Aprendo espainol hoy Aplo arabo e anglis

[@Miler97487]

I often wondered why popular Arab singer Aziza Jalal was sometimes spelled Galal, because that was how Egyptians said her name (she was from Morocco but was based in Egypt until she married a Saudi in the 1980s and moved to Saudi Arabia, and disappeared from the music scene until 2019).

[@NicoleACottageWitch]

I was hoping you’d add Arabic to storylearning. Excellent!

[@PhilKneeland]

Nice work Olly

[@illhomemadetcg3218]

Amazing video! I love your sources and I’m even subscribed to ilovelanguages and linguamid.

[@m070sam]

I enjoyed so much watching this video thank you so much ❤🇪🇬💪🏼

[@kurthammer3065]

Fascinating subject, excellent work Olly.😄

[@mohamedkhalaf6791]

u absolutely nailed it, even I as an Egyptian that is interested in languages didn't realize that we have 2 extra vowels, I even googled it cause I couldn't figure it out :)).

[@DrustZapat]

Are you doing a video on the Shami dialect next? You can speak to 4 different countries with it 😊

[@beatrizmendes9680]

Thank you, Olly! Please cover the Levantine dialect next!

[@ndorobei4391]

Fun fact: Ancient Egyptian was still spoken until 17th century before fully replaced by Arabic.

[@michaelbird2857]

I love how many channels you pull from. I haven’t watched Religion For Breakfast in a bit but I heard the voice and had to look up cause I knew I just recognized the voice 😂🤙🏽🤜🏽🤛🏽

[@jonathanekroos3788]

We love these stories

[@antonboludo8886]

Great video!!!

[@jasonbell9212]

All I want to say is my heart is with Umm Kulthum.

[@user-wm3ji9ny1t]

You have to do the same with Levantine arabic!

[@patrick_jane2164]

As an Egyptian I am delighted to see the video and the effort behind it ❤ It is great Small thing though, Arabic (both MSA and Egyptian) does not have vowels In MSA, all letters are consonant and written in their consonant form, but we add حركات (something like accents) which can change the meaning significantly In Egyptian, حركات are not used and words generally have one form In both cases, there are no vowels in the English sense

[@lisamarydew]

Olly knows this. :) But it's the difference between 'vowel letters' and 'vowel sounds'. The spoken vowel exists, or it would be very difficult to talk; the written vowel doesn't exist, but those "accents" still tell you where to say a particular "A" or "I" sound - and those SOUNDS are vowels.

[@patrick_jane2164]

@@lisamarydew You're right. Guess I didn't think of vowel sounds Thank you for that!

[@rashidah9307]

@@lisamarydew Yes, I found it very confusing at the beginning of my Arabic learning journey when people said that there are no vowels. this is more confusing than it is helpful. There ARE vowels and they are VERY important for correct pronunciation; it's just a matter of how they're represented on paper.

[@donnycollection9799]

شكرا جزيلا. 🇧🇷 ❤ 🇪🇬

[@anisalial-maghrabi3215]

Speak Arabic 😂

[@ammarkarakandi4225]

Hey olly would you please make a video about levantine and Syrian accents "I know it's a small region but their is lots of dialects in here😂"

[@coracaodosuldobrasilcorazo5101]

Hi , thanks for help me with denmark and of course with the language, when is the next ? And i almost forgot with the german too ... 👍👏

[@amrismailgad8056]

Well that's absolutely right I'm living in a village that talks the menya accent and the next village is speaking like Saudi ppl exactly

[@rashidah9307]

Wow!

[@jeremyhodge6216]

This video was interesting 🤔

[@maletu]

A few points of clarification. (1) Egyptian seems to have already been a hybrid of Semitic (the family of Arabic), North African (think, millennia before the Arab conquest) and West African languages. It was a hybrid of these not only in terms of lexicon but also syntax and morphology, making it MUCH more of a hybrid than English. (2) Greek was the usual administrative language used by the Romans around most of the eastern Mediterranean basin. (3) As you say, Coptic is simply (very) late Ancient Egyptian written in Greek letters (plus a few extras). Also with a lot of Greek loan words by that time, especially for church and administrative matters. (4) By the 2nd century CE, there were many different dialects of Coptic. Sahidic Coptic-the version I learned for my dissertation research-is sometimes considered a dialect of the middle and/or southern part of Egypt. But Sahidic is thought by some to be a deliberate and artificial synthesis created as a common language for speakers of Coptic dialects. (For analogy, one could imagine a pan-Romance hybrid conlang...) Or, maybe only a regional dialect that attained "lingua franca" status for a while.

[@donnycollection9799]

Ahlan meen elbarazil. 🇧🇷 Shukran giddan. 👍🏿

[@rowantharwat9195]

th is not always changed to an S, sometimes it is changed into T. for example te3ban instead of tho3ban (snake)

[@EgyptianAhmedgebril1986]

Good job

[@AimUpD]

Olly please make a video on Levantine Arabic next لحسمحت

[@alaaaldafrawy6837]

Hello everyone from Cairo Egypt 🇪🇬 where are you from , we are over 100 million

[@mohamedhommos7748]

My Love Egypt Country In North Africa

[@drziggyabdelmalak1439]

Very interesting. I spoke street Egyptian [even different from dialect or slang!] when I lived there for four years. Forgotten a lot of it now, sadly. I didn't catch from the video if you answered the questions as to whether Egyptian, in your or the World's, opinion is a language or just a dialect.

[@MENTOKz]

Hey Olly ever thought about Scottish Gaelic just asking

[@abdelrhmanahmed8894]

Awesome video but I'd like to correct a few points 24:49 that's the levantine dialect we don't use that word

[@ahmedsalaheldinhusse]

The Fairuz aong is in MSA. Better examples of lebanese singers singing in egyptian would be Saba7 or Farid al atrash. Brilliant video and so much effort gone into it.

[@m070sam]

fairuz sang in Lebanese and Egyptian arabic

[@hshdss1318]

Minor note: Al Hakim Biamrillah, the caliph that banned coptic, wasnt a normal caliph, he was insane, he thought he was god, one day he went out alone in the middle of the night on a donkey, stripped in the middle of the desert, and was never seen again. They found the clothes and the donkey though.

[@dalubwikaan161]

Please Olly make a video avout Moroccan Arabic. Thank you 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

[@videonofan]

Langfocus made a video about it

[@lugo_9969]

Cmon Olly , a Frisian book next please ?

[@HaiderAlZubaidi]

Bo3bo3, nunu and falso are used in Iraqi Arabic as well!

[@joannasliwa8147]

With language like Arabic , Chinese or Japanese it is like to get into " a two -level " learning : first their specific alphabet et then the language itself . It must be quite fascinating

[@karlakh]

Has your method brought you to academic writing level with correct and precise standard language? Street level is easy to learn in any language, but I don't believe you could manage higher level without studying the grammar and using somewhat the dictionary.

[@rashidah9307]

Most people are not trying to reach this level in a foreign language. I mean, most native speakers of Arabic (or English, for that matter) haven't achieved this level of competency in their own language! And I would not say that "street level" speech is "easy" at all... It actually takes quite a bit of effort to learn to understand native speakers when they're speaking to each other in almost any language. This requires a high intermediate level for the learner because not only do native speakers speak fast but they use many expressions and idioms, many different words that mean the same thing, different styles of speech, shorthand phrases, cultural references, pronunciation variations, etc. There are actually many people in the world who learn how to read a foreign language for the purposes of their studies or work who GREATLY struggle if they try to actually communicate orally in that same language. Also, Olly is not against using dictionaries or learning grammar. In his story learning courses, you learn all of these things within the context of a story.

[@0esklbliulukxmn]

تحية من مصري!

[@MisterJimLee]

21:06 Actually they still pronounce the letter qoph in Egyptian Arabic, but it turns into a glottal stop [ʔ]. So it sounds like a little catch in your throat, or the t in 'cat'

[@OMAR-ck5wk]

We still pronounce the sound in some words like in the word قوي which means strong, or القاهرة which means Cairo, but mostly we change it ء sound. Not really sure why we pronounce it sometimes and ignore it most of the time, but that’s the way we speak.

[@barrysteven5964]

Languages and politics, eh. Croats and Serbs who understand each other clearly will swear they are speaking different languages. Arabs from different countries who can hardly understand each other at all will swear they are speaking dialects of the same language.

[@Yanzdorloph]

Moroccan doesn't really have much french like the stéréotypes say, but the reason why Moroccan is hard for other arabs despite most the words used are just classical arabic, is because the structure of the phrases in Moroccan arabic is not arabic at all, the simplest way to explain it is word for word translation from berber to arabic. structure of the phrase is berber + most words are from classical arabic + 0 vowels at the start and very modest use of vowels over all, like polish on steroids and some berber/portoguese or spanish words words = Moroccan dialects. most arabs that migrate to Morocco only take like a week or 2 to get used to the logic of the dialect and understand most of it.

[@rashidah9307]

That's a great explanation! I had an Egyptian friend who told me that she and her family watched a Moroccan musalsal. At first, they couldn't understand anything. But by the end of the series, they could it understand it well!

[@anisalial-maghrabi3215]

I'm Libyan Arabic also 🇱🇾😁

[@James-hs3tu]

What good is knowing 10. Languages. ?

[@judahbenj5246]

👍👍👍

[@eduardodasilva907]

Didn’t Cleopatra speak Latin as well?

[@fra604]

Isn't saying Egyptian Arabic is the "Language of Pharaohs" a bit... Weird? Wouldn't it be better to have a title like "Egyptian languages: [...]" or "Languages of Egypt: [...]" or even "Linguistic history of Egypt: [...]"?

[@jmwild22]

I think the whole idea is to hint at what's to come, and when you watch the video, it all becomes clear. :)

[@fra604]

​@@jmwild22 That's fair, it's just a bit off-putting if you already know the difference

[@norhanabdo2997]

6:51 I would like to clarify that this information is wrong and that the Egyptians learned Arabic quickly because a large group of them converted to Islam, so it was obligatory for them to speak Arabic in order to perform prayers and read the Qur’an, but of course we could not speak fluent Arabic. From here came the Egyptian dialect, which has the same tones and sound as the Coptic language, but we speak in Arabic letters 😅I also want to add information that the Coptic language is still used in Egyptian churches to sing hymns, and there are many Egyptians, Muslims and Christians, who love to hear these hymns, and also Christians who love the sound of the Qur’an.

[@islamemam-1798]

Miss Nourhan... Can I tell you something?

[@norhanabdo2997]

@@islamemam-1798 No

[@islamemam-1798]

@@norhanabdo2997 good for you👏🏻

[@Abuhmeed77]

hello. About the time around 6:47, the muslims had not forced anything on us really.. before the arabs came we weren’t even speaking much coptic, but greek..

[@user-gh9gb1xj2f]

Hell O!!!!

[@Abuhmeed77]

6:47 How untrue..🙄

[@saszablaze1]

oh my, that metu neter or kemetan sounds awesome. mmmmmm love the coptic script. wow. love it. woaahhh cutting off tongues for language ban. fuckers. english vs scots too. bastards. i'd love to see a video where language banning has been rife. that owould be an AMAZINGLY EPIC vid i reckon olly.

[@OmarKhaled-wc7ph]

Egypt's population isn't 92M it's actually over 113M

[@nsevv]

Hindu-arabic numerals are the best imo. It is the most widely used numeral system.

[@thwaib100]

من تكلم في غير فنه جاء بالعجب

[@einarmar7445]

well coptic is still around making it the language of the pharaohs.

[@avenasucia3413]

y yall make cleopatra white tho 😭😭😭

[@user-gr9ue6mb6v]

I'm sure she was white, coming from modern Greece 🤠

[@napoleonfeanor]

No single pharaoh spoke Arabic.

[@studentofknowledge9705]

you were there?

[@napoleonfeanor]

@@studentofknowledge9705 last pharaoh was Cleopatra before Roman conquest so obviously yes

[@istvancsiszar1118]

According to mainstream Egyptology , with which I am fed up , we can never come to know how the Egyptian language was spoken , because the reconstruction of the pronunciation is impossible and also not worth the trouble anyway . If you study an Ancient Egyptian course or text book written by a mainstream egyptologist , you will be taught a consonant-only transliteration with "e" vowel insertions everywhere , which is basically false . So , is it worth to watch this video ?

[@birdsongs482]

Do you think AI will soon render foreign language learning an obsolete endeavor because highly advanced technological gadgets will be able to do all real-time translation and communication?

[@AimUpD]

No because not all people within each culture have access to such technology. So, language learning will always be necessary.

[@birdsongs482]

@@AimUpD But at some point, not sure when, there will come a time, when all people will have access to such technology, for example, all people have smart phones today.

[@lardgedarkrooster6371]

​@@birdsongs482it would be a very long time from now if possible at all, which we may either be gone or all be speaking only one language by then. AI is not really good at translating body language, tone, and cultural context, as even trained translators have trouble with those. Plus, probably the more spoken languages with more resources would be closer to having more "accurate" translations, however a lesser known, less spoken/studied language like Rotokas for example, or even a dead language with few records like Dalmatian, Ubylh, or Etruscan would be harder for an AI because you have to train it first by feeding it information. Either way, language learning and translators/interpreters are and will always be important, whether technology progresses to that point or not

[@mostafaelbrenge2640]

12:08 Coots means Egyptian it's from the word قبط qebt and this one is from gyptos which from aigyptus So you can't say copts are 10% of the population, you mean christians

[@yudeok413]

0:46 I don't get the 300 million native speaker number. Also I'd dispute the "you can get by with it everywhere Arabic is spoken" as not exactly true.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Arabization of Egyptians is one of the saddest moments in history.

[@RomulusAugustulus-wd7te]

We can't do anything about historical events though

[@user-kj8yl6sn2z]

If you asked the Egyptians to choose between speaking the Coptic language or the Arabic language, they would choose Arabic. Therefore, your opinion may contradict the opinion of the Egyptians

[@mohamedeltawil8645]

لا مافرقش كتير معايا الصراحة بتفرق بس مع جزء من المجتمع المصري بيسمي نفسه أولاد كيميت و حامي التاريخ المصري و في الحقيقة دي حاجات خلصانة من سنين فاتت أنا كل اللي يفرقلي إني إتولدت بتكلم بلهجتي اللي ممكن أعتبرها لغة زيادة غير العربية الفصحى .

[@mohamedeltawil8645]

I responded to you in egyptian dialect (my mother tongue)

[@lucyadam9128]

​@@RomulusAugustulus-wd7teyou can atleast acknowledge it

[@ryubelmont2259]

Egiptian arabic was certainly NOT the language of pharaohs, because Arabic language spread in Egypt only from 639 a.d., after the Islamic conquer. I know it's only a clickbait title, but is still misinformation, you should change the title. Also, about the "polyglot Queen" you're talking about Cleopatra right? It is true that she was polyglot, in fact, she was fluent in at least three languages: Greek, Latin and Coptic. But certainly no Arabic.

[@ahmadessam2522]

First of All its Name is Misr not Egypt then ..keep repeating what they printed to u ..but logicaly u can change the way we write but u cant change the way we talk ..and we have عين and its symbols is everywhere on the walls so dont talk about what u dont understand and try to be use ur ears and logic

[@christinElDeeb4273]

Bottom line How do Egyptians end up speaking arabic even though we are not Arabs ? Because the arab conquerors used to cut out the tongues of the copts who speak the coptic language

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

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[@studentofknowledge9705]

pure bs

[@user-kj8yl6sn2z]

Hello Olly Richards, and Hello lovers of learning the Arabic language. The language of the Pharaohs is the Coptic language, which has become extinct. I do not advise anyone to learn the Egyptian dialect unless he wants to speak it with his Egyptian friends only, because the Egyptian dialect is far from the standard language and the exits of letters as well. The closest to it is the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, so many go to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, etc. to learn Arabic There are distinct curricula for learning Arabic for non-native speakers, so we see many Westerners speak Arabic better than Arabs, even though it is a difficult language.

[@hubb8049]

Note that the Coptic language is still used liturgically, so it's not completely unused

[@user-kj8yl6sn2z]

@@hubb8049 I know that within very narrow limits and not useful for language speakers.

[@hubb8049]

@@user-kj8yl6sn2z yeah Coptic is more of a trivia language with barely any use, but admittedly it is very cool

[@zombieat]

@@hubb8049 i knew an egyptian girl who could speak and write coptic in saudi arabia.

[@Fahad-Qahtany]

هذه من أخطاء القراءة للتوراة لأن الذين كتبوها مثلكم أجانب وليسوا عرباً ,,, Egypt كلمة محرفة من اكمت "ولا شأن لاكمت بالتوراة والقرآن "مصر"" القراءة الصحيحة بالعبرية هي مصريم "بمعنى قطرين اليمن والحبشة" .........

[@mostafaelbrenge2640]

مصريم من مصرايم وهو ابن من ابناء حام مفيش علاقة باليمن و الحبشة

[@Fahad-Qahtany]

مصريم يعني قطرين اليمن والحبشة , القرآن يقول مِصر وبلاد النيل اسمها بلاد وادي النيل أو ملوك وادي ولم تكن اسمها مصر إلا بعد الفتح الإسلامي ,, ولا تأخذ مصدرك للأسماء من الأعاجم فقد حرفوا الكثير@@mostafaelbrenge2640

[@mostafaelbrenge2640]

@@Fahad-Qahtany مصر اللي بمعنى قطر هو الاسم العربي و لا يوجد مصريم في العربية مصريم اسم توراتي مشتق من مصرايم ابن حام ابن نوح عليه السلام و وادي النيل هو الدلتا مش مصر كلها انت دليلك ايه ؟

[@Fahad-Qahtany]

@@mostafaelbrenge2640 دليلي هي التوراة بقراءتها الصحيحة ,, لا يوجد ذكر لمصر كبلاد وادي النيل

[@metuuboy]

Way "question Wayo.why Waa:is Waxay.what Waxan:this Laguage somalia 100% speaking old egyptian 😂

[@moatazel-shafie3689]

Lots of misinformation and historical errors. English, French, and Turkish contributed very little to Egyptians' Arabic that you can not mention more than 20 words from each language that made it colloquial Egyptian Arabic, with French contributing the most. Also, Greek was the second official language of Egypt. All official documents were written first in Demotic and then Greek and for major events and announcements, especially ones that were placed in temples, were written first in Hieroglyphics script, then demotic and then Greek. Also, the claim that cutting the tongues of who speak Coptic was sited to occur only during the Mad Caliph all Hakim Bi Amr Ellah who issued many of strange decrees, yet Coptic was still the main spoken language outside Cairo up untill the 2nd half of 17th century.

[@zohrabaaziz5162]

I think you are may be rong,15:24 it is Arabic not dialect.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Muslims used to cut tongues of Coptic speakers that’s why most of them forget their languages and replaced with Arabic.

[@rgfhjfghjk.]

lol no

[@studentofknowledge9705]

🤡

[@mammouth2727]

Fantastic video. Just one bit of constructive criticism: would it be possible to reduce the number ‘coming up later’ mentions? They are quite annoying and break the flow of the story you are telling. We don’t all suffer from ADHD and don’t need to be ´hooked’ every 2 minutes.

[@shiningmeteorite]

bro used an AI voice and thought we wouldn't notice! :)

[@jmwild22]

Did he though?

[@andreasneumann-pw1zw]

Try the oldest living language on earth "Tamil".

[@andreasneumann-pw1zw]

What a total mess,i thought English and French were messed up languages.😅

[@karliikaiser3800]

Do it bit less sensationalistic and research more serious. So much missinforamtion...

[@rashidah9307]

Like what misinforrmation?

[@karliikaiser3800]

​@@rashidah9307The Pharaohs did not speak arabic. They spoke ancient egyptian wich is a related language but the egyptian languge evolved into coptic and the people stopped speaking coptic after the arab invasion in the 7th centrury. It is due to the coptic language that we are able to read the hieroglyphs. It starts with the title being wrong...

[@rashidah9307]

@@karliikaiser3800 I understand what you mean about the title. . . Titles are designed to grab people's attention. . . But in the actual video he never says that ancient Egyptians spoke Arabic.

[@DinaMoMokh]

christians gate keeped the title coptic to themselves but all Egyptians have coptic DNA majority not just 10%

[@mirnagabriel9079]

Christians didn't gatekeep the word Coptic. They were designated as being Coptic by non-Christians, both Egyptians and foreigners, until quite recently, and for centuries, it was both part of their identity and their isolation from the rest of the Egyptians. So don't blame the christians for being the only ones who cared to embrace the word and saw the value in it as something to be proud of.

[@AngryBitterNeckbeard]

Pharaohs did not speak Arabic.

[@rashidah9307]

Who said that the pharaohs spoke Arabic? Not Olly....

[@deci5e1]

@@rashidah9307 the video title is highly misleading

[@rashidah9307]

@@deci5e1 Yes. It's supposed to get you to watch the video! And you can tell from the comments who actually watched it and who's just reacting to the title. Lol

[@ancientegyptandthebible]

This video has many errors. Cleopatra VII was not the last independent Pharaoh of Egypt--that was Ptolemy XV Caesarion. The writing systems of hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic did not evolve into each other, but were used in parallel for millennia. And that computer spoken Egyptian is so butchered it's not even funny. Arabic is not an Afro-Asiatic language; it's Semitic. The connection between Babi (baba) and the modern Arabic equivalent is speculative at best, and the idea that this developed into phobos (i.e. phobia), "to fear" in the Greek is ridiculous. Adjective-noun agreement also occurs in Semitic languages, so it's not an indication of Coptic influence. The interrogative pronoun does not occur at the end of the sentence in Coptic or in Middle Egyptian. Maybe, you should next time consult an actual Egyptologist (or at least an expert in ancient languages) before posting a video on the Egyptian language. I'm sure Olly can speak Egyptian Arabic just fine, but it's another thing to understand the history of languages of which he has little to no acquaintance.

[@zombieat]

isn't Semitic part of the Afro-asiatic language family or am i confused?

[@ancientegyptandthebible]

@@zombieat You are confused. Afro-asiatic languages are languages that combine African and Semitic language elements. Middle Egyptian is Afro-asiatic. Arabic is Semitic.

[@zombieat]

@@ancientegyptandthebible The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. that's literally the first line about Semitic languages on wikipedia

[@ancientegyptandthebible]

@@zombieat Wikipedia is not written by subject matter experts in the field, but by "well-meaning" amateurs. Wikipedia is rife with mistakes and errors, and should not be relied upon as an authoritative source.

[@zombieat]

@@ancientegyptandthebible ok

[@mashiah1]

Egyptian Arabic is definitely not the language of Pharaohs. There isn't any language or cultural connection between ancient Egyptians and current Arab population of Egypt. Those who have some connection to ancient Egyptians are Copts who suffer from persecutions and discrimination from Muslim Egyptian Arabs

[@rowantharwat9195]

what an ignorant and xenophobic comment .there is a lot of cultural connection between ancient egyptians and modern egyptians beyond languages. Food, music (many middle eastern and european instruments existed in ancient egypt), dances, the egyptian method in agriculture and even the egyptian calender is what the farmers use in their trade , cultural clothes as well (just because you only know about clothes painted on temples doesn't make them the only clothes, saaidi galabya especially is the same as the modern one), not to mention jewelery

[@justaduck1664]

​@@rowantharwat9195we littarly still practice one of our ancient holidayd

[@dr.hebagadallahclinicalpha9871]

Copts are Egyptians . Some of them are Muslims some are Christians. I am a Muslim Coptic. I have never persecuted any Christian or any one for that matter. Guess what I have Christian Coptic friends, lots of them actually.

[@justaduck1664]

@@dr.hebagadallahclinicalpha9871 exactly

[@MarioBishara]

@@dr.hebagadallahclinicalpha9871 you didn't but your ancestors definitely did, and saying that hey I am a Muslim Coptic is sort of cultural appropriation, Copts are an ethno-religious minority, your ancestors abandoned all ties with them long time ago and even participated in pogroms and worse things, so you pretending to be a Copt today is frankly appalling.

[@Qeswara]

Dialects are for the ignorant and thugs only, while the standard language is for the elite, even English has a standard language and it also has dialects called "Slang", the only difference is that the English people are wise while the Arabs are ignorant, the Arabic dialects are used by ignorant people who spend most of their time in Streets to cause harm to others, their dialects are like their mannerisms, they are rude, vulgar, and impudent, with many vulgar words and sexual overtones, so the ignorant common people love these dialects, and they hate Standard Arabic because the standard language is concerned with culture, books, and technology, so I will ask this question: What is the use of communication With ignorant people who love to hurt you?! If this is the case, then mixing with them is reprehensible, and it is better to stay with books (and as I said earlier, Standard Arabic represents books and culture). On the other hand, you benefit from Standard Arabic and its alphabet, being the easiest in the world. I am from the Arab East and I can understand Arabic dialects (I do not like Arabic dialects, I love Standard Arabic, but just to clarify the matter) I can understand even the Algerian and Moroccan dialects, and in the end it must be said that this is not just an opinion, but a reality.

[@rashidah9307]

This is a very elitist explanation of language. Languages have many different registers and it's more than just educated speech and vulgar street language. In English, we don't call all our dialects slang, by the way. The way someone from Texas speaks and the way someone from New York speaks are just different but equal ways of communicating. And actually when people make jokes and speak from the heart, they don't tend to speak in formal registers. I use Levantine Arabic to communicate with and serve refugees from Syria and they are very decent people that I respect a lot. Standard Arabic is not their heart language. When you speak to your parents and your friends, do you really speak MSA? If so, I'd say that you are in the minority.

[@Qeswara]

My comment is clear, if you don't like it or don't understand it, that's your problem!!! I am an Arab, I know the people of those regions, I know the dialects they speak, and I know the Standard Arabic language because Standard Arabic is my native tongue!! I say: I am happy that the savages and backward people abandon my language and stop distorting it! I hope they extract all Arabic words from those hateful and Rude dialects!!! By the way, as you said, “I represent the minority ” because educated, elite, and noble people in areas like this are minority, so yes, I am among the minority!!

[@Qeswara]

Well!!! In English Dictionaries, The dialects are called " Slangs " In parallel with " Colloquial "

[@rashidah9307]

@@Qeswara I studied linguistics. What you are saying is incorrect. "Dialect" is not another word for slang. Using the word "dialect" actually shows respect for the many ways that people speak and indicates that there is logic and grammar behind it. And "colloquial" also doesn't mean slang. It means informal speech--like the way that people (educated or non-educated, rich or poor, moral or immoral) speak in everyday conversations.

[@Qeswara]

Ok!!, I have seen many words in the English dictionary referred to as “ its original is Slang " the arabic dialects, is not logic and have not grammar! It is the wrong use of Arabic words, distorting them, and turning their meanings into obscenity and sexual connotations!