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Facts about Egyptian Arabic

Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian or simply Masri, is the spoken vernacular Arabic dialect of Egypt.

Egyptian is a dialect of the Arabic language, which is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It originated in the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt.

Egyptian Arabic evolved from the Quranic Arabic which was brought to Egypt during the seventh-century AD Muslim conquest that aimed to spread the Islamic faith among the Egyptians.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Arabic

• Language code (ISO 639-3): arz

• Other names for "Egyptian Arabic": Lower Egypt Arabic, Massry, Modern Egyptian Language, Normal Egyptian Arabic

• The Egyptian Arabic language is spoken in: Egypt

Egyptian Arabic Dictionaries

• Lisaan Masry: Egyptian-Arabic-English dictionary (Arabic & Latin alphabets)

• Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic by El-Said Badawi & Martin Hinds (1986)

• Arabic-English vocabulary of the colloquial Arabic of Egypt by Socrates Spiro (1895)

• Lexique de l'arabe dialectal égyptien-français: Egyptian-Arabic lexicon

• Lexique arabe-français: Cairene Arabic-French lexicon, by Jean-Claude Rolland

• Dictionnaire contextuel raisonné des verbes du dialecte égyptien: dictionary of the verbs of the Cairene Arabic dialect

• Vocabulaire phraséologique français-arabe à l'usage des étrangers en Égypte, by M^r Barthélémy (Julius Zenker) (1854) (Arabic & Latin alphabets)

• Traité de la langue arabe vulgaire by Mouhamad Ayyad El-Tantavy (1848)

• Das Kairenische im 19. Jahrhundert: study about the Cairene Egyptian in the 19^th century & Traité de la langue vulgaire of Ṭanṭāwī, by Manfred Woidich (‎2014)

• Defense language institute: basic vocabulary (+ audio) - civil affairs - medical vocabulary

• Desert-sky: Usual expressions

• slang & insults

• Egyptian Arabic proverbs

• Arabic proverbs by John Lewis Burckhardt (1875)

• proverbs collected in Cairo by Jean-Louis Asselin de Cherville (manuscript, beginning 19^th)

• Coptic loanwords of Egyptian Arabic by Federico Corriente, in Collectanea Christiana Orientalia (2008)

• Coptic lexical influence on Egyptian Arabic by Wilson Bishai, in Journal of Near Eastern studies (1964)

• Source: https://www.lexilogos.com/english/arabic_egyptian.htm

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