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Bosnjo
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Topic: Old Egypts, they were Aryans?? Posted: 05-Feb-2005 at 21:06 |
Does anybody know to wich language family the Old Egypt belonged, or is this unpossible to say because you can not see the structure of the language by reading the Hyroglyphs.
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Scytho-Sarmatian
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Posted: 06-Feb-2005 at 02:09 |
I will take a wild guess and say Hamitic. Definitely not Aryans, though. Unless you take the Persians or the Greek dynasty established by Alexander the Great into consideration, of course. Romans, also.
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Kuu-ukko
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Posted: 06-Feb-2005 at 02:55 |
Nah, the Coptic is a direct descendent of ancient Egyptian, and they speak an Afro-Asiatic language family in the Egyptian sub-family, so they are distantly related to Hebrew and Arabic, but not Indo-European (modern name for Aryan) languages.
PS. They are also genetically preserved amazingly, having almost the same appearance as ancient Egyptians.
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Bosnjo
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Posted: 06-Feb-2005 at 06:22 |
O.K.
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Mangudai
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Posted: 06-Feb-2005 at 12:54 |
The clostest relative of ancient egyptian still spoken today are the berber languages used in Algeria
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kipchack
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Posted: 06-Feb-2005 at 20:01 |
nevermind old egypt
I even saw a white supremarchist web-page many years in advance (the title was "great white race history"). they have been clamining even Chinese kings were white-aryans who settled north Chinia.
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a kipchack never dies..
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Bosnjo
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Posted: 07-Feb-2005 at 19:20 |
Originally posted by Mangudai
The clostest relative of ancient egyptian still spoken today are the berber languages used in Algeria |
Kipchak I was on a similar site. But they seemed to be serious.
Berber, I always thought that Berber speak a Indo-European Language. But now I looked at Wikipedia, and they language belongs to the Afroasiatic familiy.
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Cywr
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Posted: 08-Feb-2005 at 21:58 |
The clostest relative of ancient egyptian still spoken today are the berber languages used in Algeria |
No, its Coptic, indeed, Coptic is a direct descentand of Ancient
Egyptian, you can view it as the final phase in the Egyptian language's
development up to the present.
Afro-Asatic is split into the following subfamilies - Berber, Semetic,
Chadic, Egyptian (Coptic is here), Kush*tic, and one or two others.
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Arrrgh!!"
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Gubook Janggoon
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Posted: 08-Feb-2005 at 22:03 |
We really need to fix this Kush*te problem...
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Mangudai
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Posted: 09-Feb-2005 at 06:31 |
Originally posted by Cywr
The clostest relative of ancient egyptian still spoken today are the berber languages used in Algeria |
No, its Coptic, indeed, Coptic is a direct descentand of Ancient Egyptian, you can view it as the final phase in the Egyptian language's development up to the present.
Afro-Asatic is split into the following subfamilies - Berber, Semetic, Chadic, Egyptian (Coptic is here), Kush*tic, and one or two others.
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Yes that's true, but koptic is not a spoken language - it's a "dead" liturgic language just like Latin, classic Greek or Hebrew (up to the 20th century when it was revived)
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Kuu-ukko
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Posted: 09-Feb-2005 at 07:39 |
Mangudai you are true, but the Coptic dialect of Bohairic is nowadays tried to be revived into daily usage, and there is also a lot of Coptic literature in Sahidic (the main dialect of Coptic). So, in a way, it isn't THAT dead.
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