Egyptian Arabic

Egyptian Arabic (ʿArabī maṣrī: عربی مصری), otherwise known as Coptic Arabic (ʿArabī qabṭī: عربی قبطی), is a group of dialects of the Arabic language, one of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

Egyptian Arabic
عربی مصری
Pronunciation	Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʕɑ.rɑ.ˈbi ˈmɑsˤ.ɾi]
Native to	Egypt
Native speakers	58,412,000 (2014)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Egyptian Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	arz
Glottolog	egyp1253
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It came from the people living in the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt around the capital Cairo. It originates from the spoken Arabic brought to Egypt during the AD 7th-century The Islamic conquest of Egypt .

Egyptian Arabic was formed also of the Coptic language of pre-Islamic Egypt,^[2][3][4] and other languages such as Italian and French. Egyptian Arabic is officially recognized as the national language of the Egyptian government. More than 76 million people in Egypt speak Egyptian Arabic. Also, many people in the Middle East can understand it.