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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Truthcentric: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundjata: [qb]I also think Ancient Egyptian was probably a lingua franca based on Ehret's notes concerning evidence of intense bilingualism around this time in the lower Nile valley (among other considerations like the tale of Sinuhe and Clyde's observation of the use of different "cursive" scripts)[/qb][/QUOTE]I myself was wondering whether ancient Egyptian was only the official language (a lingua franca as you describe) instead of a vernacular language spoken universally by the Egyptian population. For all we know, some Egyptians well into the dynastic period may have been native Nilo-Saharan-speakers who only wrote in Afrasian but didn't necessarily speak it in private. Come to think of it, the Egyptians' own name for their written language translates to "Language of the Gods", which implies a belief that the gods spoke a different language from ordinary Egyptian mortals. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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