How Does Coptic Affect The Spread Of Egypt

Coptic was a proud language of the Egyptian Christians that began in the late second century AD. Father, St. Shenouda who “lived from 348 to 466 AD, was able to transform the language form a tool to communicate instructions to the monks to a wide-variety literary language that addressed monks, ecclesiastic authorities, laymen, and even government officials” (Takla). Then came the period of the 7th to 10th century, and it all started going downhill from there. Egypt was finally under the raps of Arab rulers and forced the Copts to learn Arabic just to keep government jobs. Even though the Arab harassed and forced the people to learn Arabic, it continued to be strong, because it was still used in the church (Takla). Copts tried to stay bilingual,

Through God's grace, this period did not last long, but it definitely left open the door for further decline in Coptic use” (Fanous). The Ottoman Empire decided to come in and take over during the 16th century. It looked bad for the language to ever arise again, on how it once was. The Arabic language completely toke over and replaced Coptic over Copts (“Coptic Language”).

Languages are everywhere, even animals have their language we have yet to unfold. Some people have yet to master human languages, like English because it is the hardest language to learn because of all of its dialect. Even though English is one of the hardest to learn it will be here for a long while, but there are other languages besides English. There are a lot of people on this earth, in which will not learn a language of their people or the ancestors before them. The language may be dead and there is no use in learning something that is dead because others don’t speak it. What about languages that are not yet dead, because humans are trying to keep it alive for as long as possible. Endangered languages are something people should start speaking again because it is important to know what our ancestors went though.