Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written ...

The ancient language is Demotic Egyptian, a name given by the Greeks to denote it was the tongue of the demos, or common people. It was written as a flowing script and was used in Egypt from about ...

The challenge of minding one's language in Egypt. The question produced laughter from him and the audience, but it had the desired effect: By asking in the written and more formal Arabic that only ...

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C.

Fatma Addar grew up in a Nubian family, connected to her ethnic minority's rich history through its tales of a bygone life on the Nile, though regaled less and less in their original language. She ...

And it’s a close relative of Old Nubian, a literary language written in the Nubian kingdoms of Nobadia and Makuria from around the 8th century up to the 15th century, Vincent WJ van Gerven Oei ...

Egypt has applied for the first internet domain written in Arabic, the country's information technology minister confirmed today. Tarek Kamel said they had applied for a new domain, which is ...

ASWAN, Egypt -- Fatma Addar grew up in a Nubian family, connected to her ethnic minority's rich history through its tales of a bygone life on the Nile, though regaled less and less in ...

The language, she says, is "unpractised by many in her generation", born decades after the mass eviction of Egypt's Nubians from their ancestral lands to make way for the construction of the Aswan ...