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**gIWnXYkw** · 12-20-2006, 10:55 AM

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
Egyptians have been arabiazed, only speak arab and are muslims, even a few decades ago they attempted to create a big arab state with syria and libya.

Altough maybe the few million native egyptian christians can be considered to be real "egyptians", since a few centuries ago they still spoke copt (the native langauge of egypt), and still use it as a liturgic langauge, pretty much like catholics before the 60´s or jews before they resurrected hebrew as an every day langauge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_language Sorry, but nonsense. Coptic is a dead language for over a thousand years now. It is used in the Coptic Church the same way Latin is used in Roman Catholic masses.

BTW, although Coptic was a very late form of ancient Egyptian, it was as far removed from Pharaonic Egyptian as Medieval English is to modern English.

And though modern day Egyptians may be Arabised they are still the same people that lived in ancient Egypt.

12-20-2006, 10:55 AM	#8
gIWnXYkw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 543 Senior Member	Originally posted by Brachy-Pride Egyptians have been arabiazed, only speak arab and are muslims, even a few decades ago they attempted to create a big arab state with syria and libya. Altough maybe the few million native egyptian christians can be considered to be real "egyptians", since a few centuries ago they still spoke copt (the native langauge of egypt), and still use it as a liturgic langauge, pretty much like catholics before the 60´s or jews before they resurrected hebrew as an every day langauge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_language Sorry, but nonsense. Coptic is a dead language for over a thousand years now. It is used in the Coptic Church the same way Latin is used in Roman Catholic masses. BTW, although Coptic was a very late form of ancient Egyptian, it was as far removed from Pharaonic Egyptian as Medieval English is to modern English. And though modern day Egyptians may be Arabised they are still the same people that lived in ancient Egypt.
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