TWO FOLIOS FROM A COPTIC CHRISTIAN PRAYER MANUSCRIPT, EGYPT,...

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TWO FOLIOS FROM A COPTIC CHRISTIAN PRAYER MANUSCRIPT, EGYPT, 19H CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 12ll. of Coptic in black, catchwords in red, reminding words in black

Egyptian Arabic is part of the Arabic macrolanguage of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family . It originated in the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt around the capital Cairo . Descended from the spoken Arabic brought to Egypt during the AD seventh-century Muslim conquest , its development was influenced mainly by the indigenous Copto -Egyptian language of pre-Islamic Egypt , and later by other languages such as Turkish .