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I guess you mean ancient Egyptian, not modern Egyptian Arabic.
We only have hieroglyphs as evidence for the ancient language and these did not write any vowels, only consonants. The writer and ancient readers of those texts knew exactly which vowels should be said, but that knowledge is lost today and we can never know how each word was pronounced.
The word for a cat was written with signs spelling miw(where i stands for a consonant sound not found in English, not the vowel i). With unknown vowels included this is clearly an attempt to copy the sound made by domesticated cats.
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How do you use Egyptian in a sentence?
"Are you Egyptian?" "Yes, I am from Egypt, there for I am an Egyptian."
What is the proper noun for Egyptian?
The word Egyptian is a proper noun as a word for a person of or from the country of Egypt. The word Egyptian is also a proper adjective that describes a noun as of or from the country of Egypt.
Cleopatra was the queen of Egypt but was she Egyptian?
She was Egyptian and Greek. I thought she was purely Greek by birth.
How do you say hi in Ancient Egyptian?
كيف حالكKayfa HalakEgyptians speak Arabic in Egypt nowhow are you in Egyptian language: izayakIf you are talking to a man, you say izzayak? or 3amel eh?If you are talking to a woman, you say izzayik? or 3amla eh?izzayak/izzayik=إزّيّكYou can say Khayfa halak/Khayfa halik (man/woman) but this is really more forstandard Arabic or eastern Arabic. It isn't really specific to Egyptian Arabic!!
Is Cleopatra Greek but she rules Egypt?
Cleopatra was an Egyptian.
