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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
The official language of the Arab Republic of Egypt is '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic Arabic]'''. | |||
The spoken languages are: | |||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Arabic Egyptian Arabic]''' (68%), | |||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%CA%BDidi_Arabic Sa'idi Arabic]''' (29%), | |||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Arabian_Arabic Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic]''' (1.6%), | |||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_Arabic Sudanese Arabic]''' (0.6%), | |||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domari_language Domari]''' (0.3%), | |||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobiin_language Nobiin]''' (0.3%), | |||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beja_language Beja]''' (0.1%), | |||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwi_language Siwi]''' | |||
and others. | |||
Additionally, Greek, Armenian and Italian, and more recently, African languages like Amharic and Tigrigna are the main languages of immigrants. | |||
The main foreign languages taught in schools, by order of popularity, are English, French, German and Italian. <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Egypt," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt#Languages, accessed 8 Apr 2021.</ref> | |||
==Word List(s)== | ==Word List(s)== | ||
For word lists and help researching in Egyptian records, see: | For word lists and help researching in Egyptian records, see: | ||