Egypt is Middle East or North Africa for you ?

[StonyArabia]

Egypt is heart of middle east.

Iraq is it's brain, though after 2003, the idiots and foreigners took power in that country sadly.

[Myanthropologies]

It's funny how people think it makes sense to lump Egypt and Algeria in the same category with Iran, but lump Afghanistan in a category with the Sri Lankans and Burmese.

[KMack]

I think of N. Africa first.

[paprika]

First of all, Yeah I do speak our ancient language and actually the current Egyptian accent still hold many of the old Egyptian words like Nkh-Embo and so on.

Secondly, what is coptic in your perspective so i can answer you

Thirdly, no I don't worship stones and neither did most of our ancient ancestors, some pagans in the old times doesn't mean we were all pagans.

and i'm really surprised what's wrong with some fools in us or europe worshiping our myths , some worship ISIS and some Osiris and some Anubis

Quran only mentioned Pharaoh as the corrupt one to the people of Israel, Quran didn't say Egyptians are bad.. if you know stories of Islam you will know that Prophet Muhamed married an Egyptian woman, also prophet Ibrahim married an Egyptian woman and so on.

come on just because a few words were preserved that doesn't count as you speaking the same language as your ancient ancestors

by coptic i was referring to the coptic language which is a direct descendant of the ancient egyptian language, it gradually declined after the arab conquest and went extinct in the 17th century, i can assume pretty confidently you don't speak it.

also the coptic christian community are culturally closer to the original egyptians after they were christianized by the greco-romans, linguistically they no longer know their original language either, but it could be said that culturally they still have some connection. the rest of egyptians are the cultural descendants of the invaders from the caliphate.

yes obviously modern egyptians don't worship stones and various pagan deities which is good, they haven't done that for centuries, but in ancient times i'm sure the vast majority of them did, there is plenty of historical and geographical evidence for that which you can't deny.

and excuse me for getting the story incorrect from the koran, i'm not too familiar with it, if you have any more good examples of your argument then go ahead.

[Egyptian]

come on just because a few words were preserved that doesn't count as you speaking the same language as your ancient ancestors

by coptic i was referring to the coptic language which is a direct descendant of the ancient egyptian language, it gradually declined after the arab conquest and went extinct in the 17th century, i can assume pretty confidently you don't speak it.

also the coptic christian community are culturally closer to the original egyptians after they were christianized by the greco-romans, linguistically they no longer know their original language either, but it could be said that culturally they still have some connection. the rest of egyptians are the cultural descendants of the invaders from the caliphate.

yes obviously modern egyptians don't worship stones and various pagan deities which is good, they haven't done that for centuries, but in ancient times i'm sure the vast majority of them did, there is plenty of historical and geographical evidence for that which you can't deny.

and excuse me for getting the story incorrect from the koran, i'm not too familiar with it, if you have any more good examples of your argument then go ahead.

Nah, we actually study the old Egyptian language in colleges, that's the course from Tourism college
http://thfac.mans.edu.eg/events-agen...lyphs-course-2

ahh, well the coptic language isn't the successor of the ancient language, it uses greek alphabets and it's used inside the orothdox churches (don't know about the evangelical or catholic churches).

[paprika]

Nah, we actually study the old Egyptian language in colleges, that's the course from Tourism college
http://thfac.mans.edu.eg/events-agen...lyphs-course-2

ahh, well the coptic language isn't the successor of the ancient language, it uses greek alphabets and it's used inside the orothdox churches (don't know about the evangelical or catholic churches).

yes it is, the coptic language is the direct descendant of the ancient language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_language

Coptic or Coptic Egyptian (Bohairic: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ti.met.rem.ən.khēmi and Sahidic: ⲧⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲣⲙ̄ⲛ̄ⲕⲏⲙⲉ t.mənt.rəm.ən.kēme) is the latest stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afroasiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century.[2] Egyptian began to be written in the Coptic alphabet, an adaptation of the Greek alphabet with the addition of six or seven signs from demotic to represent Egyptian sounds the Greek language did not have, in the first century AD.[3]

Coptic and Demotic are grammatically closely related to Late Egyptian, which was written with Egyptian hieroglyphs.

anyone from any country can study some ancient language in college, that doesn't prove you have any cultural relation to your ancient ancestors at all

[paprika]

Nah, we actually study the old Egyptian language in colleges, that's the course from Tourism college
http://thfac.mans.edu.eg/events-agen...lyphs-course-2

ahh, well the coptic language isn't the successor of the ancient language, it uses greek alphabets and it's used inside the orothdox churches (don't know about the evangelical or catholic churches).

sanskrit courses at the university of chicago
http://salc.uchicago.edu/sanskrit-at-chicago

[Egyptian]

sanskrit courses at the university of chicago
http://salc.uchicago.edu/sanskrit-at-chicago

is that satisfying for you?

https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-reco...zf7nr56z9hq07k

[Egyptian]

yes it is, the coptic language is the direct descendant of the ancient language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_language



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[Marinus]

Geographically North Africa, Culturally and especially Politically it has a strong pull within the Arab world, or more so, it's very heavily influenced by the Arab & Muslim worlds.

Other than Ethiopia's upstream dams, itself a country possessing large Orthodox Christian and Muslim populations, and the Bir Tawil disputes with Sudan (overwhelmingly Sufi Muslim), Egypt has always been more active politically in the Levant and Mediterranean, at least since I can remember.