The Sound of the Ancient Egyptian language (Numbers, Words & Sample Text)
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Egyptian
Region: Originally, throughout Ancient Egypt and parts of Nubia; (especially, during the times of the Nubian kingdoms); now, only, in several parts of Cairo and several villages, in Upper Egypt
Ethnicity Ancient Egyptians, Copts
Era Late fourth millennium BC – 19th century AD (with the extinction of Coptic); still used as the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox and Coptic Catholic churches and spoken, colloquially, by two families of Copts
Revival Revitalisation efforts have been taking place, since the 19th century; 300 reported speakers
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
is an Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. Its attestation stretches over an extraordinarily long time, from the Old Egyptian stage (mid-4th millennium BC, Old Kingdom of Egypt). Its earliest known complete written sentence has been dated to about 2690 BC, which makes it one of the oldest recorded languages known, along with Sumerian.
Its classical form is known as Middle Egyptian, the vernacular of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt which remained the literary language of Egypt until the Roman period. The spoken language had evolved into Demotic by the time of Classical Antiquity, and finally into Coptic by the time of Christianisation. Spoken Coptic was almost extinct by the 17th century, but it remains in use as the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.