Has the ancient language of Egypt been destroyed because of religious fanatacism?

Question

Or is there some way to learn the ancient egyptian language today?

Answer 1

The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was developed four thousands years before Christ. They vanished toward the end of the fourth century A.D. The last dated example of the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing is found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in 394 A.D. It is also where a piece of demotic graffiti was found and is dated to 450 A.D. The emergence of Christianity was responsible for the destruction of Egyptian scripts and for banning the use of the Egyptian scripts in order to eliminate any connections with Egypt's pagan past. In the third century A.D., hieroglyphic writing was replaced by Coptic writing, The Greek form script.

The Coptic language was then developed during the Roman period. Coptic language used the Greek letters but followed the basic structure of the ancient Egyptian language. Biliterals are hieroglyphs that took place of pairs of alphabet characters and sounded the same like them. Biliterals eliminated large numbers of simple characters. They are signs that make the sound of two letters. The Greeks failed to understand the nature of hieroglyphic writing and could not obtain guidance to their Egyptian contemporaries.
In the middle Ages, the Egyptian language was replaced by Arabic which still exists in Egypt to the day.

Answer 2

Ruby's got it pretty much right. Ignore the others who claim the language went out with the Greeks or Romans. The "official" language for government business may have changed, but that doesn't mean people stopped speaking their native language.

Also, Coptic is ancient Egyptian! It is the fifth and final stage of the language as defined by Egyptologists (following Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, and Demotic). It uses the Greek alphabet with the addition of some other characters for sounds that Greek didn't have. Eventually, it was phased out as an everyday language in Egypt after the Arab conquest. However, it is still used in the Coptic church (kind of like Latin in the Catholic church).

As others have mentioned, you can still learn how to read all stages of Egyptian. It's just that people don't speak it anymore (again, like Latin or any ancient Near Eastern languages).

Answer 3

Do you have any idea what you are talking about? I think they stopped speaking Ancient Egyptian around the time of Ptolomy the I who was Greek (when Alexander the Great conquered Egypt). I think they then spoke Coptic and now speak Arabic. Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs were decyphered over 100 years ago on the Rosetta Stone. You can steady Hieroglyphs in some universities.

Answer 4

No, Arabic is the language of Egypt, regardless of the undeniable fact that the Coptic language (direct descendant of the classic Egyptian language) is used in the liturgy of the Coptic Orthodox Church, which a factor of Egyptians adhere to. curiously, I examine that when the Muslim conquest of Egypt, it grew to become into suggested that some human beings have been nonetheless conversing the classic Egyptian language way deep down in bigger Egypt nicely into the 1400s advert.

Answer 5

Yes u still can learn the ancient Egyptian language today. And i have a question for you, why are Christians terroists?

Answer 6

the ancient Egyptian language wasn't spoken since the Romans conquered Egypt the official language was the Greek language & egyptians began to speak arabic 2 centiries later after arabs came to egypt but it is not spoken nowadays maybe coz its alaphapitical letters r in the form of animals . its hard language so it can't live alot coz the egyptians themselves were mixed with greeks & then arabs so they can't their own language but u can learn herogliefy

Answer 7

i dont know why is the ancient language of Egypt is dead.
you can learn Hieroglyph and Egyptiology in universities, some of them. but no one know for sure know how the language sounded in spoken.

Answer 8

DEAR, PLEASE CHANGE YOUR NICK NAME .
AN EGYPTIAN MUSLIM.
TERRORISTS ARE IN EVERY RELIGION (CELESTIAL OR NOT) AND YOU FIND THEM ALSO IN THE ATHEISTS.