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The term gitano evolved from the word egiptano [10] ("Egyptian"), which was the Old Spanish demonym for someone from Egipto (Egypt). "Egiptano" was the regular adjective in Old Spanish for someone from Egypt, however, in Middle and Modern Spanish the irregular adjective egipcio supplanted egiptano to mean Egyptian, probably to differentiate Egyptians from Gypsies.
As of 2014, most people in Egypt using French have studied it as a foreign language in school. [20] The first French-medium schools in Egypt were established in 1836. By the end of the nineteenth century, it had become the dominant foreign language in Egypt and the lingua franca of foreigners; this was especially the case in Cairo. [21]
According to Pliny the Elder, Mithridates could speak the languages of all of the twenty-two nations that he ruled. [1] Cleopatra (69–30 BC), Queen of Egypt. According to Plutarch, Cleopatra spoke many languages in addition to her native language, Greek, including Latin, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Trogodyte, and the languages of the Hebraioi ...
Pages in category "Spanish people of Egyptian descent" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. I. Sara Ismael
Pages in category "Egyptian people of Spanish descent" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Land of Egypt) [108] and Assyrian records called Egypt Mu-ṣur., [109] commonly referred to the people of Egypt's Capital City, the greater Cairo area. [110] It is represented in a body of vernacular literature comprising novels, plays and poetry published over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Arabic is currently Egypt's official language. It came to Egypt in the 7th century, [2] and it is the formal and official language of the state which is used by the government and newspapers. Meanwhile, the Egyptian Arabic dialect or Masri is the official spoken language of the people. Of the many
Spanish is the primary language in 20 countries worldwide. As of 2023, it is estimated that about 486 million people speak Spanish as a native language, making it the second most spoken language by number of native speakers. [30]