THE COPTS : DIRECT DESCENDANTS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.

#copts #coptic #copticchurch #egypt #egyptian
Copts are a Christian ethno religious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt and Sudan since antiquity. They are the largest Christian denomination in Egypt and the Middle East, as well as in Sudan and Libya. Copts in Egypt account for roughly 5-15 percent of the Egyptian population; Copts in Sudan account for 1 percent of the Sudanese population, while Copts in Libya similarly account for 1 percent of the Libyan population.
Could they be direct descendants of ancient Egyptians? Continue watching to find out.
Copts are the descendants of pre-Islamic Egyptians, when Egyptian Muslims later ceased to call themselves by the demonym, the term became the distinctive name of the Christian minority. According to Y-DNA analysis by Hassan et al. (2008), around 45% of Copts in Sudan carry the Haplogroup J. The remainder mainly belong to the E1b1b clade (21%). Both paternal lineages are common among other local Afroasiatic-speaking populations (Beja, Ethiopians, Sudanese Arabs), as well as the Nubians. E1b1b/E3b reaches its highest frequencies among North Africans, Levantine Middle Easterners, and Ethiopid East Africans. The next most common haplogroups borne by Copts in Sudan are the European-linked R1b clade (15%), as well as the archaic African B lineage (15%).
Hollfelder et al. (2017) analysed various populations in Sudan and observed that Sudanese Copts have remained relatively isolated since their arrival to Sudan with only low levels of admixture with local northeastern Sudanese groups. This could mean that Sudanese Copts are genetically closest to the Ancient Egyptians due to the limited admixture with Arabs.
Let’s delve more into the Coptic Language.
Copts have historically spoken the Coptic language, a direct descendant of the Demotic Egyptian that was spoken in late antiquity. The Coptic language is the most recent stage of the Egyptian language. Coptic remained the spoken language of most Egyptians until it was slowly replaced by colloquial Egyptian Arabic in Lower Egypt and Sa'idi Arabic in Upper Egypt by the end of the 17th century, although it may have survived in isolated pockets for a little longer.
Today Coptic is extinct but it is still the liturgical language of the native Egyptian Churches (the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church). It is taught worldwide in many prestigious institutions, but its teaching within Egypt remains limited.
Discrimination.
Religious freedom in Egypt is hampered to varying degrees by discriminatory and restrictive government policies. Coptic Christians, being the largest religious minority in Egypt, are also negatively affected. Copts have faced increasing marginalization after the 1952 coup d'état led by Gamal Abdel Nasser. Until recently, Christians were required to obtain presidential approval for even minor repairs in churches.

[@st3019]

To anyone who is watching this video. This video is absolutely CORRECT.Even though Coptic Christians do show some non Egyptian admixture, their ancestry goes all way to prehistoric times, even before pyramids. For those who have fallen into hoteb hustle of “ black Egypt “ , they need to know two things . Firstly, NOT one single black African population was ever indigenous population anywhere outside of subsaharan Africa. NEVER. Those black folks who say “ we were indigenous everywhere “ are just living in illusion. Even in subsaharan Africa you have nonblack populations ( Khoi San) who are brown skin and are not black . Secondly, the population of prehistoric Egypt ( before pyramids) was related with prehistoric west Asian populations ( mostly natufians who were NOT black Africans) . These are 100% FACTS . Good job Afro Artista .

[@christiansimon3307]

​@@st3019 False. To Anyone Watching This Video, This Video Is Absolutely 100% IN-CORRECT.

[@st3019]

@@christiansimon3307 Listen, if you keep listening to hotebs, they’re gonna tell you that even ancient vikings were black . My comment is based on science and common sense. Your comments of based on fabricated fairytales invented in 20th century.

[@Incog80]

@@st3019 again you are pushing a lie that is not true . This whole SSA is recent term that nobody was using in the ancient times. What’s funny is that certain Greeks labelled the majority of African people as black people , bare in mind they didn’t pass Down the south of The Sahara

[@st3019]

@@Incog80 First of all , ancient Greeks NEVER said North Africans were “ black peoples “ . Herodotus said “ melancores “ which is the word that Greeks use for anyone who was darker than Greeks. Herodotus did not speak English of American accent to take his words as if he was using modern concepts of race . He used ancient terms . Concepts change through time and space. What is funny , is that groups like Fulani, are called “ white “ by other black Africans. Does that make the white Europeans?! Your comment lacks context and is null .

[@st3019]

@@Incog80 Subsaharan African is just a geographical term used to describe today black peoples. It is not a lie bc North Africans and black Africans were NEVER one people. In Arabic, the word “ Sudan” means “black “ or “dark “. Arabs called Nubia “ Bilad Al Sudan “ meaning “ land of the dark skin people “ . Why didn’t Arabs call Egypt like that ?! Bc they saw that Egyptians were NOT black . Ironically, even Cushitic people who are dark skin have mostly west Eurasian dna (70-75% ) and west Eurasian phenotypes. And you want to talk about Egyptians.

[@jasonaziz691]

As a Coptic Egyptian I really appreciated this amazing informative video, we have largely been ignored by society. So thank you for this video.

[@IbrahimAbdu-pc4xx]

You are an invader offspring. Sad you are finding out this on KZbin . Go and find your roots in somewhere else where you belong.

[@Dani-wc9cu]

@@IbrahimAbdu-pc4xx Poluted by Bran.less Afro-American clowns .🤡 Come on you can do better ^^.

[@CharGC123]

Genetics are fascinating! I will never understand why humanity gets so hung up about something as surface and inconsequential as skin tone! All of humanity is equally beautiful, it is learned bias that is hideous and ugly.

[@FulSerkle]

It's not about genetics it's about land ownership. Ancient Egyptians and Sudanese are Dark Brown and Deep Brown and Dark Mahogany in skin tone. Stop with the fake nonsense color doesn't matter because if that where true other tones would be revered and have equal access to the land and resources in these ancient lands that have been invaded through history by others in Europe. Stop it.

[@OliverStamnitz]

You benefit from your white privilege, so get lost with your bullshit. The most evil race ever

[@marvel22-mf1js]

Haplogroup R1b It is the most frequently occurring paternal lineage in Western Europe, as well as some parts of Russia (e.g. the Bashkirs) and across the Sahel in Central Africa, namely: Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal (concentrated in parts of Chad with concentration in the Hausa Tribe and among the Chadic-speaking ethnic groups of Cameroon).

[@aiynaiy]

Never seen anyone considered indigenous to the planet that look like these people.

[@christiansimon3307]

You Are Absolutely Correct. No One Who Looks Like These People, Is Indigenous To No-Where, On This Planet.

[@st3019]

⁠@@christiansimon3307Well , no one who look like subsaharan Africans is indigenous anywhere outside subsaharan Africa.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

No group can be indigenous since humans migrated all around Africa and the rest of the world, they are all immigrants.

[@Naltddesha]

They are from the moon originally

[@Mishavonna]

Wtf are you guys on? Every skin color is indigenous to somewhere on this planet. Like the person above me said, where tf do you think they came from?? The moon???

[@physicist-physician5555]

i don't know why me and my great uncle have Coptic Egyptian in our 23andme DNA results. We are from the Philippines.

[@felisibnhuraira5396]

Discrimination? Moslem told me their religion is peacefull and rahmatan Lil alamin(blessing for a whole world).... So in these case,either the Moslem lied to me or the attackers are not Moslem already, somebody must tell me....

[@MichaelRichardson-q9z]

Those COLORED CARVINGS were for a REASON....The 1st STORY of CREATION IS CARVED in STONE...There were "Other" Stories and BEGINNINGS of CREATION for Other Kinds...

[@lifeline.6144]

Herodotus himself said the ancient Egyptians were black. Arabs colonized North Africa in the 7th century

[@elo6550]

And in that same passage you refer to, he also says that the inhabitants of Colchis, a region in the Caucasus in what is now Georgia, were of "Egyptian race," so one might guess that he said this either because of perceived cultural similarities or because there was physical similarity among the Colchians. But, the genetic, archaeological, historical, and cultural evidence tells us that the Colchians were ancestors of modern Georgians and that they spoke a Kartvelian language like them, and Georgians are certainly not black. So, I wouldn't take that passage too seriously.

[@The_Truth-]

⁠​⁠@@elo6550 Then that would mean physical similarities. Because there are no cultural ties to Egypt from Georgia. But that doesn’t mean dark skin people didn’t exist there.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Herodotus wrote a lot of weird things based on stories he heard. From what I read of translated texts, I don't read any Greek, the Ethiopians and the Sudanese were black that is very dark brown skinned approaching black, the Ethiopians lighter than the Sudanese. The Egyptians were described as the color of Norah Indians, a sort of light brown, reddish brown. To say Herodotus saw Egyptians as the same as Sudanese and Ethiopians in color is quite wrong.

[@The_Truth-]

@@Ponto-zv9vf Why would it be wrong, when it’s what she saw with his own eyes. Romans said similar things when they saw Egyptians. Which pretty much aligns with what the majority of the artwork looked like. Brown to dark brown skin.

[@elo6550]

​@@The_Truth-The only black people in the Caucasus were 2 or 3 slaves that the Ottomans sold to the local people in the 16th century. Later, There is no genetic or archaeological evidence to suggest that there were black people in the Caucasus during ancient times. So we can say that Herodotus' claim is an exaggeration.

[@maramediop9647]

These people dont look like pharaoh painted on pyramid So crazy..

[@st3019]

Where in the pyramids or anywhere is shown that those who look like subsaharan Africans were pharaohs ?!

[@st3019]

@@maramediop9647 How do pharaohs painted on the walls of ancient Egypt look like?

[@The_Truth-]

@@st3019Clearly not like this people, they were much darker.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

What pharoahs painted on what pyramids. A lot of Egyptian paintings are quite primitive, stylistic the same throughout their history. Hatshepsut was shown as man. Akhenaten as a hermaphrodite. There are some realistic depictions of foreigner like Sudanese from the south, but that was not the norm.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

@@The_Truth- I don't know. Those Copts are ugly. Happy now? People who are not black can tan, even Europeans out in the sun or on the sea for a long time can be dark brown. Just because you don't tan doesn't mean most humans around the world can tan, if they are unlucky to be stuck outdoors in the sun for long periods.

[@veer-ps4nv]

The Copts are the result of a diaspora that occurred in the Roman empire, the empire was a vehicle to transport Christianity all across the known world, established itself in Egypt , and it spread all along the Nile River into Sudan/Nubia, Ethiopia

[@st3019]

And yet , not one single black subsaharan African population was ever native population anywhere outside of subsaharan Africa. NEVER

[@veer-ps4nv]

@@st3019 explain the images on the triumphant arch in Rone that depicts Numidians ( North Africa ) with afro features, even the hair. At the inception of the human race, Black people comprised the world population, until a portion of our population migrated into Northern Central Asia and mated with Neanderthals, that mating produced the Caucasian and Asian races, that is proven scientific facts, that is supported by archaeological and genetic testing, along with carbon dating. So tell me again where black people weren't ? You jest, or, lack the proper education to be putting forth false narratives, and erroneous information. This is the field I went to school for, I am very astute when it comes to this topic 🤣.You're texting , so apparently you have access to the internet, therefore may I suggest that you use it and obtain some knowledge

[@christiansimon3307]

@@st3019 ??? "Not One Single Black Sub-Saharan Afrikan Population Was Ever Native Population Anywhere Outside Of "Sub-Saharan" Afrika..."??? ??? There Is Soo Much Wrong, With This/Your Statement. Absolutely False.

[@veer-ps4nv]

@@christiansimon3307 another one that has no idea what they're referring to, is you. First and foremost, Coptic is a religion not a race, the Christian Coptic Church adherents ( members ), are referred to colloquially as Coptic. If you could text then you can look it up. So the next time you claim someone is false about the narrative , you can research what you're about to retort, and that will be the time that you will walk away with no egg on your face. Educate yourself my friend, that is the key

[@christiansimon3307]

@@veer-ps4nv ??? "Copt" Is A Religion, Although Often, "Copt" Is Thought Of As If It Is A People. This Appears How "Copt" Is Being Referred To Here. I'm Addressing How "Copt" Is Being Referred To Here. And, "Indigenous"??? ???

[@christiansimon3307]

My Apology. This One Is A Fail, AfroArtista Films.

[@st3019]

Ooo don’t worry! Bc Afro artists is 100% correct. I guarantee you . Not one single subsaharan ( west African, Bantu, Pygmy, Nilotic) was ever native population anywhere outside of subsaharan Africa. NEVER. Cushitic people ( who are of west Eurasian descent too) never reached northerner than Upper Egypt. So this channel is 100% correct. Majority of ancient Egyptians looked like Coptic people.

[@christiansimon3307]

@@st3019 Wow. You Come Across Real Stupid.

[@christiansimon3307]

@@st3019 Thank You For Sharing That. False. I Guarantee You Are 100% In-Correct.

[@st3019]

@@christiansimon3307 Well, unfortunately, hoteb hustles are not sufficient to guarantee anything. Again, if you listen to hotebs and pseudo historians they gonna “ guarantee “you that vikings were black too.

[@christiansimon3307]

@@st3019 Well, Unfortunately For You, Being I Have No Idea What You're Referring To By "Hoteb", My Comment, Stands, As Is... I Guarantee, No, Better Yet, I KNOW, For A Fact, Your "Hustle" Is Absolutely 100% In-Correct.

[@HolyPelvisPresley]

I was told blk people designed the pyramids

[@lifeline.6144]

they did. it definitely wasn’t no lightskin people on the hottest continent in the middle of a desert doing it. herodotus himself said they were black

[@st3019]

@@lifeline.6144 Just bc your grandma told you they were black , doesn’t mean they were. Not one single black African population was ever native population anywhere outside of subsaharan Africa.

[@The_Truth-]

@@st3019You’re a special kind of slow if you think black Africans didn’t spread all throughout Africa. The first pharoah came from the interior of the continent, so did the culture. Let that sink in.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Pyramids do nothing for me. Sort of white elephants. Negroes around the world can claim them if they want, they are just rocks placed on each other. Now Great Zimbabwe is something to claim much better than pyramids in Egypt designed and built by Egyptians or the pyramids in Sudan designed and built by Sudanese Africans.

[@Naltddesha]

@@lifeline.6144y’all just love to take credit for everything huh? I mean, if my people never accomplished anything, and still lived in mud huts to this very day, I’d be salty too.

[@dashiki_masta]

Egyptians are African pro max

[@chipikalonde2920]

Why does Coptic sound like Hebrew?

[@rascott2935]

because they are both largely from Asia

[@rascott2935]

Africa for Africans. never forgive. never forget.

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

It doesn't sound like a Semitic language. It sounds odd to my ears.

[@veer-ps4nv]

Let me correct this narrative, Coptic, is a religion not a race, they are people of North Africa who practiced Christianity. A faith that was transported around the Mediterranean world by the Romans and the Byzantines, which became the state religion of North Africa and the rest of the Roman / Byzantine world before the Advent of the Arabian invasion

[@امحوتب-ش7ز]

It is a race, not a religion. “The Coptic Church” means the Church of Coptic people because guess what! They are Christians. Their religion is Christianity, and there is no religion called Coptic.

[@albinakemet]

It is an ethnicity not a faith

[@rebellerevelle]

My DNA test said I have some "Coptic Egyptian" ancestry and states that it is a distinct ethnicity from Arab?

[@wambokodavid7109]

@@rebellerevelle true but ''coptic'' dna is just dna found in people who practised coptic religion coz there is no coptic haplo group

[@IbrahimAbdu-pc4xx]

@@امحوتب-ش7ز False. Those so called copts in modern day Egypt are arabs , grekks , turks and romans,

[@rascott2935]

the copt are descendants of Greeks, and Arabs, greeks are from Europe and Arabs are from Asia and did not arrive in Africa until the seventh century, their language history and writings are Greek, and there is no such thing as afro asiatic, afro Asian is an attempt to erase Africanness.

[@st3019]

@@rascott2935 What is “ Africaness” ?! Is Africa in another planet or what ?! And btw, if Copts are Greeks, why didn’t they speak Greek ?! If Egyptians are Arabs bc they speak Arabic, Sudanese people also speak Arabic ?! Are Sudanese people arabs too?! Didn’t you know that Geography Does Not Equals race nor culture?!

[@rascott2935]

all their early writings and culture is Greek, and they are largely related to the Greeks and later Romans that invaded Egypt, there is no record of them before that, but they also read their early scriptures and writings, not only is it in Greek, but they also identify as greek.

[@rascott2935]

@@st3019 so are you saying historic China geographically was not populated by a specific race culture or group of people?

[@rascott2935]

Egypt was invaded lastly by Arabs. who engaged in 1500 years of enslavement, genocide ethnic cleansing, rape, and replacement. the Ashkenazi in the Palestinian Jewish population today, is trying to do the exact same thing, to the arab population, that the arab population did to the African population 1500 years ago. just like North America was largely invaded by English-speaking Europeans, and that's why many people in New York speak English today. the people living in New York today have nothing to do with New York's pre-invasion population. just like the Egyptian population in Egypt today, which largely has nothing to do with the pre-invasion Egyptian population.

[@st3019]

@@rascott2935 No ! Read my comment again. My point was just bc Iran and China are both geographically in Asia that does NOT mean they were related racially and culturally. The same goes with civilizations of North Africa with those of tropical Africa. NOT the same race , NOT the same culture. Those two parts were NEVER connected directly. Only in Sudan had some connection with Egypt .

[@albinakemet]

Copts are not African

[@emekaibe7876]

From further analysis, the Copts are decendants of Helenics who mixed up with some aboriginal Egyptians.

[@Mamo-c3e]

If it was that then they would have looked half black or half white or looked more like the people of

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Really? They don't look very mixed with any Europeans, they look like many of the people of the Northern part of Africa from Morocco eastwards. At one time Greek language and culture was like English language and culture is today in Anatolia, the Levant, parts of South Central Asia, and North Africa.

[@IbrahimAbdu-pc4xx]

😂😂😂😂

[@elo6550]

Its main genetic base is not European, it is from northeast Africa.

[@bluemanno7901]

This video is going to get hammered in the comments for simply telling the truth lol

[@FulSerkle]

What truth? Do tell I'm listening.

[@christiansimon3307]

​@@FulSerkle That's Right. I'm Listening.

[@st3019]

The truth about ancient Egypt. Hotebs have invented a fairytale that says that ancient Egyptians looked like black subsaharan Africans. Unfortunately many black folks in the west and Africa do buy this hoteb hustle.

[@christiansimon3307]

@@st3019 ??? Hotebs? Invented??? Fairytale??? "Sub-Saharan"? Hustle??? ??? Really, Lame-O???

[@st3019]

@@christiansimon3307 Yes yes you’re reading it correctly and let me remind you the words of Dr Clarence Walker about Afrocentrism: “ Afrocentrism is a therapeutic methodology designed to restore the self esteem of black peoples by creating a past that NEVER was “ . Black Africans were NEVER indigenous people anywhere outside of subsaharan Africa. This is 100% historical FACT.