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4 days ago · Of the other Afroasiatic branches, linguists have variously suggested that the Egyptian language shares its greatest affinities with Berber and Semitic languages, particularly Arabic (which is still spoken in Egypt today) and Hebrew.
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- Ancient Egyptians
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2 days ago · Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [2] Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula. There are considerable variations from region to region, with degrees of mutual intelligibility that are often related ...
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3 days ago · First Intermediate. Middle Kingdom. Second Intermediate. New Kingdom. Third Intermediate. Late Period. Hellenistic Egypt. Roman Egypt. See also: List of pharaohs by period and dynasty. Periodization of ancient Egypt. v. t. e. Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
3 days ago · Letters. The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Forms using the Arabic script to write other languages added and removed letters: for example Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Urdu, Sindhi, Azerbaijani, Malay, Acehnese, Banjarese, Javanese, Pashto, Punjabi, Uyghur, Arwi and Arabi Malayalam all have additional letters in their alphabets.
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5 days ago · Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt ’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and, like Mesopotamia farther east, was the site of one of the world’s earliest urban and literate societies.
4 days ago · Naguib Mahfouz (born December 11, 1911, Cairo, Egypt—died August 30, 2006, Cairo) was an Egyptian novelist and screenplay writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, the first Arabic writer to be so honoured. Mahfouz was the son of a civil servant and grew up in Cairo’s Al-Jamāliyyah district.
2 days ago · Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, khumeía) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe.