So I didn't end up speaking Egyptian/Coptic, and I didn't want to paste someone else's video into this one (and steal their ad revenue), so for those of you still curious what the language sounded like when spoken, here are a few clips from other channels PolýMATHY's Wellerman parody in Egyptian -- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rd1ml7Fo2tWqZJs.html The Stele of Kuʀi - Ancient Egyptian Spoken -- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n9VghKmK3dvQhmg.html Speaking Coptic -- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nrFzpcSD1dDLj2g.html

Short answer, it became Coptic

Can you make about syriac aramaic language in syria please

I envy all these countries with ancient history, like Egypt, Greece, China, etc... it's so cool to read/watch anything about them. Thousands of years of history.

We harassed the Arabic language into changing the scentence structure to be similar to coptic and then proceeded to add a shit ton of coptic words into Arabic, we basically made a new language

As Egyptians, we still have some words used from the ancient language. Also, the structure of Arabic sentences is unique and in a way unlike any other speakers of the language.

~6:13 The name of Egypt was most likely never pronounced "Kemet." Egyptian writing didn't include vowels, so Egyptologists generally use the letter "e" as a default vowel to slot in between consonants in order to make it possible to say Egyptian words out-loud - hence, kmt becomes Kemet. Based on more diligent comparative linguistics, the Ancient Egyptians probably pronounced the name of their country as something like Kumat in Old Egyptian, Kuma in Middle Egyptian, and Keme in late Egyptian and Demotic.

~0:29 For those who can't read Hieroglyphs (surely a tiny demographic, right? ;P), the text on screen is the spelling of the god Anubis' name with a "Kh" symbol at the start, hence "KhAnubis," but "Anubis" is actually the Greek adaptation of his name, so the actual spelling says "xjnpw" or "KhAnpu"

this video failed to talk about how egyption/kemtic massivly affected egypt's arabic dialect and kinda still lives through it.

Kemet is usually reconstructed as Kumat. Kemet is an Egyptologist rendition of Kumat. Osiris may have been known to the ancient Egyptians as Wasyiirit. The original Egyptian name of Anubis is reconstructed as Yanaapaw.

I hadn't have watched a video of yours in a while, but I must say I'm impressed which how much you've improved in quality since the last time I did.

It evolved and survived to this day as Koptic. That's how the hieroglyphs were eventually deciphered by Champollion.

'As recently as the roman era' ....sums up the Egyptian time scale

Many ancient Egyptian words still spoken in the current Egyptian dialect spoken toady in Egypt that clearly have not Arabic roots or origin whatsoever

Please do a video on how most modern writing systems are derived from Heirogyphics! Love the videos.

Great video.

Sucks to see ancient languages fading into obscurity... but that's life.

I am so used to the Erasmian pronunciation I didn't even recognize the word "Koine" except thanks to subtitles, so thanks for including those.

"Demotic as history's middle child" is an underrated but true line

Great video, very accurate

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Fun fact: Egyptian is the only language that we have record of going through almost all of the morphological archetypes. Having distinct synthetic, agglutinative, and analytical phases

Can you do a video on how it influences those alphabets you mentioned at the end? Very interested to see how it links to the phonetic alphabet, as I struggle to see the similarities but would love to find out

~4:37 To complicate the narrative a bit, many Egyptologists believe that Hieratic was NOT a simplified form of hieroglyphs, but rather a script used for simply writing that originated right alongside Hieroglyphs; the earliest Hieroglyphic signs we see are pretty messy, so the idea is that Hieroglyphs and Hieratic might have both stemmed from that common source, with Hieroglyphs becoming neater for use in more important texts, and Hieratic being used for shorthand; of course, we don't have firm evidence of this since surviving papyri only go back so far, so it's just a hypothesis.

You should make a video on the study of Waltongography

When I was in 10th grade, we learned to write in hieroglyphs. We had to write letters to the teacher telling about our day. I've forgotten most of it, but it's still fun trying to figure out what's being said! lol It's very kind of you to share other's videos in a way that won't take their revenue.

As a Sundanese we still have the Kemetic Nubio language and culture

Ancient Egyptians were speaking in emojis

I wonder if we do bring back hieroglyphics, would cursive be a newer form of hieratics? Would it be faster to write than Coptic or Arabic. I doubt people not used to logographs would want to spend that much time basically drawing out sentences like how the Chinese languages (at those related to the han script) do with their logograms.

I'm Egyptian and I want to point out the fact that language, religion and cultures of societies have always been changing across the world due to the natural course of history, empires fall and new ones replace them, wars, conquests, migrations among other factors lead to this, current France, a christian country speaking a latin based language used to be a country of celtic pagans, current Muslim Turkey was once Greek Christian asia minor, Egypt is no exception to the rules of history, in fact, quite the opposite, Egypt has conserved its culture, language and religion for more than 3000 years, before turning into Christian Coptic Egypt, then to Islamic Arabic Egypt, that ancient culture being dead now doesn't deprive us the right to consider it part of our history, expecially that many relics of that far past can be seen in modern Egyptian speech, celebrations, foods, etc. Egyptians value all their history encompassing all of its different eras

Egyptian here ! , great video I agree. However, you forgot to mention that Egyptian Arabic now contains hundreds of phrases from the Egyptian language that people just kept saying and that what makes our dialect so unique from other arabic countries

I think the Assyrian called Egypt "Miser" like in Arabic.

Any Egyptians trying to revive Coptic and even raise native speakers? I want to learn tongues in order to speak to natives and would gladly add Coptic in my list!

Well done

At 5:08 when we mentions aramaic, does anyone know how to find that image? Id like to know more about that tablet as it very closely resembles the old uyghur alphabet than other pictures of aramaic that I can find. I know that old uyghur was heavily based on old aramaic, so maybe thats just this particular writing style.

Kheper in Egyptian = Käfer in German and Kever in Dutch (beetle)

I've been to Egypt and their version of Arabic had so many words probably of ancient Egyptian origin. In general, even Egyptian Arabic is hard to understand for their cousins in Saudi and Emirates.

0:08 I doubt the text on the left is written in the Egyptian dialect

Does anyone else notice the similarity in appearance of Hieratic and Arabic script? Wonder if there was an influence there.

Me as orthodox christian, would like to hear coptic version of liturgija, i'd feel ancient, listening to that ancient language 😁

Shorter answer - it became Aramaic. I have a 500 word Egyptian-Aramaic ‘dictionary’, with the same pronunciation and meaning. R

For what I know about the ancient Egyptian language, they used to place the numerals and the adjectives after the noun they respectively quantify and qualify. And this is exactly the way any ancient or existing African language is built. You can check with Wolof, Yoruba, Swahili, Zulu.... So in a sense, they used to "speak african". Which is all but a surprise. For instance they use "cows two" to say "two cows", "tree big" to say "big tree".

The minoans might also had been using a form of egyptian hyroglyphs in the linnier A script

Can you expand on it's.development into the system of Devanagari and Thai

thers one thing to note that arabic was already present in modern day egypt that is the sinai and the eastern desert from pre islamic times. for instance many rulers conquered the nile valley of egypt, like the assyrian king Esshardon in 671 BC who conquered egypt by help of these arabs by ("camels of all the kings of the Arabs i gathered and water skins i loaded on them, IA 112), and the persian rulers cambysses in 525BC (the arab... filled skins with water and loaded all his camels with these, herodotus 3.9) and artaxerxes too in 343 BC. It is also for this reason the that according to herodotus (3.88) that the arabs were some of the only ones in the achaeminid realm that werent reduced to servile status but united by friendship (this part doest make sense to me either), but its also probably bc of this reason that the persian royal tomb relief depict the arab along with the scythian in golden chains. There are berbers (dont know since when honestly) in the siwa oasis too i find it dumb that people here try to depict egyptian dialect as some form of survived coptic when for a half lebanese like me i can understand it clearly (shockingly this is true for most dialects, arabs like to lie about how their dialect is so unique and special lol)

"Miṣr" is cognate with "מצרים", the word for Egypt in the Torah. Where did it come from?

5:26 The black book of Hamunaptra or the Necronomicon?

What about Mesopotamian languages?!

Bro made such a well pronounced video and then hit me with “devnoggery” at the end

Ancient Egyptian language has evolved into Coptic language. Languages continue to evolve with new words, terms and expressions adopted while dropping old ones. Only dead and extinct languages stop evolving. Dead languages are languages that are no longer used as vernacular, but the usage is restricted as liturgical languages of various religions as well as certain philosophical works while extinct languages are languages that are no longer used for any purpose. Coptic is regarded as a dead language as it is only used as liturgical language of Coptic Church though there might be some pockets of Coptic communities use it as vernacular only within their own communities.

Even sumarians are isumaren which is named after asamer East in Kabyle and Issumaren those who come from the East

Can you do a video about the Illyrians?

The name "Misr" or slightly different forms of it was found in some ancient Egyptian official papyrus texts and diplomatic documents written by and to the Egyptians, It's not a name that was "given" by the Arabs. The word "Kemet" which means "black earth" was used by the people who lived along the Nile on the fertile black soil of the Nile valley to simply refer to their homeland on which they lived, it was never used as an official name for the country referred to by the Latins as "Egypt". The people who lived in deserts and worked mostly as miners and quarry workers would refer to their homeland as "Deshert" which means "red earth". As for the word "Egypt" a possible Egyptian influence on the Latin word could be the word "Gip" which those who lived in the Nile Delta and traded with people from the Sea such as Latins relying on the network of canal and small rivers and their connection to the Mediterranean Sea, the word "Gipt" mean canal.

Actually there are lots of common words between Arabic and Ancient Egyptian. Take the word kemt which was the name of Egypt. It means black so does the word kumait كميت in Arabic which also means black. Add to that the similar Grammer between the two languages

I thought modern Coptic was descended from the older Egyptian language, but I wasn't 100% sure, lol. Thank you for the interesting trip through linguistic history! God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

Petition to change "Berber" to "Amazigh"

Coptic and south Semitic languages like (mehri, sabean, ge’ez) are probably the closest languages to ancient Egyptian

I created a new language that uses a mix of English,Coptic,Armenian and Deseret scripts together lol

Why is the nile valley cultures the only culture that most people argue about? You've notice there isnt aztecology mayanology incanology. Why egyptology?

Most of the names in Africa tafarka in Kabyle have meanings in tamazight

:13 that woman id rocking s SpongeBob shirt.

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i love you khanubis

Sadly I've had Egyptians tell me that Arabic is original language of Egypt and that Coptic was a colonial language.

0:13 ana sbanjibob

3:17 I don't know some scribe whold sneak it in

It’s called EVOLUTION my friend.

Ancient Egypt >>> Modern Egypt

I can speak Middle Egyptian and Coptic with not so bad level. You welcome Egypt.

I'd like to say what happened but I don't want to get banned

You forgot to mention that everyday masri is HEAVILY influenced by Coptic, some things in Egyptian arabic are practically intelligible to non Egyptian Arabs due to this fact

You failed to mention that the modern egyptian arabic is not 100% arabic and has many words and even grammar from many languages including ancient egyptian as well

Hi. I am Kabyle from north Africa. Egypt is مصر. This comes from tamazight mis = son. Ra= god Ra. Misra is egypt it's son of Ra.

9:34 / 10:31

Before the industrial revolution, European expansion, and the national education system, Egyptians were overwhelmingly farmers(still kinda were even under british rule) and the more rural you go, even today, the more you realize how "Egyptian" egyptian Arabic is, a blend of Hegazi(and yemeni) arabic and regional Coptic. You will notice how it could be considered a language of its own. In the cities, however, you will find countless foreign words from Italian, Greek, French, English, Turkish even Kurdish and Morrocan. That is because Cairo and Alexandria specifically were melting pots of MANY groups, kinda like NYC today, I like to say that before there was the American dream and the concept of "the land of opportunity" for people building themselves from nothing, the kingdom of Egypt was exactly that for foreigners, but sadly after the 50s military coup most non-Egyptian groups fled.

Iranians resisted against arabization and kept their language Persian.

9:33 *elle-même*

Hhhhh simple cause those who spoke migrated deep inside the continent of Africa.

It becomes Coptic then merge with arabic creating the Egyptian dilact

The people that you see there today are not the indigenous Egypt thats why those arabs do speak the kemetian language

0:13 Spongebob

"n older literature, Chinese characters may be referred to generally as "ideographs", inheriting a historical misconception of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but some people assert that they do so only through association with the spoken word." - WIkipedia

The Copts' language is ancient Greek... No one knows the phonetic language of the Pharaohs... It is just writing different letters, but the sound of the letters is unknown to anyone.

Coptic is a Graeco-Roman-Demotic creole. Gotcha.

Egyptian was never an entirely logographic system like Chinese

Technically, the Ancient Egyptian language would have been called Kemetian by its speakers. The Ancient Egyptians called themselves Kemetians. The land of Egyptian was called Kemet by the Ancient Egyptian. The Ancient Egyptian Mythology would have been called Kemetism. The name Egypt came from the Greek Ptolemaic Dynasty, which controlled Egypt before Rome annexed it. Heck, today, Egypt calls itself Misr.

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Other Arabs : no bro Egypt speaks their own shit we can’t understand

I ated it

How can one completely lose its own language? The answer is simple. Ancient Egyptian are not equal to Modern Egyptian. They are different people. Even the coptics is not the same as the Nile Valley Nubia peach black Africans. Indigenous people of Nubia, which is known as upper Egypt, is not the hycsos Arabs who conquered lower Egypt. At least, we all agreed to the fact that upper Egypt is Nubian black headed people. Right???

because a bird took too long to draw as the letter 'A' lol

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It became welsh

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MISRI IS AKKADIAN NAME OF KEMIT

Disapeared just like its people

Ancient Egyptian reconstructions legend: OE = Old Egyptian ME = Middle Egyptian LE = Late Egyptian bꜣjr = OE /baʀˈjaːruw/, LE /bøʔrə/ nṯrj = OE /nacˈruj/, ME /naˈtruj/, LE /naˈtruʔ/ wḥꜣt = OE /ˈwaħʀat/, ME /ˈwaħʀaʔ/, LE /ˈwaħi/ ꜣbw = OE /ˈʀuːbaw/, ME /ˈʀuːbaw/, LE /ˈjuːbə/

So we can conclude that Arabs destroyed Coptic?