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Written records of the ancient Egyptian language have been dated from about 3200 BC. Egyptian is part of the Afro-Asiatic group of languages and is related to Berber, Semitic, and Beja. The language survived until the 5th century AD in the form of Demotic and until the Middle Ages in the form of Coptic. Thus it had a lifespan of over four millennia. Egyptian is one of the oldest recorded languages known.

The national language of modern day Egypt is Egyptian Arabic, which gradually replaced Coptic Egyptian as the language of daily life in the centuries after the Muslim conquest of Egypt. Coptic is still used as a liturgical language by the Coptic Church
"ALLAH" IN ARABIC:
      (It means "God".)
ANCIENT  EGYPTIAN  LANGUAGES
Spoken in: Ancient Egypt

Language extinction: evolved into Demotic by 600 BC, into Coptic by AD 200, and was extinct by the 17th century

Language family: Afro-Asiatic

Egyptian writing system: hieroglyphs, cursive hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic (later, occasionally Arabic script in government translations)
  Third century coptic inscription.
        Ancient Egyptian
Heiroglyphics."The Alphabet"
Egyptian paper was called papyrus. It was made from the papyrus plant (at the right).
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