What Happened to the Ancient Egyptian Language?

Egypt today is the largest Arabic-speaking nation in the world, but the Ancient Egyptians spoke a completely different language. So how did things change?

MUSIC:
“Descending Mount Everest” by Trailer Worx
“Egypt Calling” by Sight of Wonders
“Lost and Forgotten” by Jon Sumner
“Ghar Thowr” by Sight of Wonders
“An Ordinary Day” by Deskant
(All via EpidemicSound)

📖 SOURCES:

Bulcsú Farmasi, Nif Lindsay, Rebanics, Tobi Burch-Rates

[KhAnubis]

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

[heyyo]

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

[not_today_satan-wuib]

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

[Jota_M]

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.

[true_jew]

Can you make about syriac aramaic language in syria please

[SomasAcademy]

~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.

[cats]

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.

[SomasAcademy]

~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"

[mapache-ehcapam]

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

[franciscoflamenco]

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.

[ShyneThyLyte]

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

[Abd]

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

[zdzislawmeglicki]

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

[AlkalineAjay]

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

[bharathwajvasudevan]

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

[manetho]

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

[diaamuharam]

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

[AhmedNour-whfc]

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

[Tinil]

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.

[MythologywithMike]

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