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- Afroasiatic
- Semitic
- Egyptian Arabic
ISO 639-3 · arzarz
Afroasiatic family
Egyptian Arabic
اللغه المصريه الحديثه
Egyptian Arabic is a language of the Semitic branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Egypt. Wikidata counts 64.6 m first-language speakers (2021). Wikidata describes it as “Arabic variety spoken in Egypt”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
arz- Glottocode
egyp1253- Family
- Afroasiatic
- Centre point
- 30.00, 31.00
- Wikipedia
- 79 language editions
64.6 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
2scripts
2levels in the tree
3EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Egyptian Arabic · اللغه المصريه الحديثه |
|---|---|
| Also called | Egyptian dialect, Egyptian Arabic language, Egyptian colloquial language, Masri, Colloquial Egyptian |
| L1 speakers | 64,600,000 (2019) |
| All speakers | 100,542,400 (2021) |
| Written in | Arabic script, Arabic chat alphabet |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 3 Wider Communication3
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Egyptian Arabic
The branches above Egyptian Arabic, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Egypt
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