🇪🇬 What Language Do They Speak in Egypt?
The short answer
Egypt speaks Arabic. The official form is Modern Standard Arabic, but everyday life runs on Egyptian Arabic (Masri) — and thanks to a century of Egyptian film, TV and music, it is the most widely understood Arabic dialect across the entire Arab world.
Worth knowing
- ●Egypt is the most populous Arab country, with over 110 million people
- ●Egyptian Arabic pronounces the letter jim as a hard 'g' — 'gamal' instead of 'jamal' for camel
- ●Coptic, the descendant of Ancient Egyptian, survives as the liturgical language of the Coptic Church
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