Someone has just alerted me to the fact that Wikipedia now has an entry for اللغة المصرية الحديثة (“modern Egyptian”). The entry is, appropriately enough, written in Egyptian Colloquial. It explains how “el Masri” has its own syntax and includes ancient Coptic, Turkish and European words.
there is a whole wikipedia in “modern Egyptian” project. highly controversial obviously with lots of fighting with the Arabic wikipedia guys.
You mean a project to have ALL the entries in Egyptian Colloquial? Please tell us bit more about this.
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