Spoken language in egypt?

Question

When Ptolemy I Soter was pharoah, what was the predominant spoken language in Egypt? Coptic? Greek? Was Ptolemy bilingual?

Answer 1

Egyptian is part of the Afro-Asiatic group of languages and is related to Berber and Semitic (languages such as Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Hebrew). The language survived until the 5th century AD in the form of Demotic and until the Middle Ages in the form of Coptic. Thus it had a lifespan of over four millennia. Egyptian is one of the oldest recorded languages known.

Answer 2

I would imagine that coptic/greek was spoken only amongst the elite and scholars while common people spoke egyptian.....

There is some evidence showing the Cleopatra was one of the members of the Ptolemy ruling family that actually spoke egyptian

Answer 3

Egypt does not speak any language. the people in Egypt however speak mainly Arabic and some English and a little French.

Answer 4

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