Question

Read the following piece of information from The Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal.

Egyptian is now extinct: its history dates from before the third millennium B.C., preserved in many hieroglyphic inscriptions and papyrus manuscripts. Around the second century A.D., it developed into a language known as Coptic. Coptic may still have been used as late as the early nineteenth century and is still used as a religious language by Monophysite Christians in Egypt.

Answer 1

Egyptian is an ancient language whose history goes back to before the third millennium B.C. It was preserved through hieroglyphic inscriptions and papyrus manuscripts.

Around the second century A.D., Egyptian developed into Coptic. Coptic continued to be used for many centuries and is still used today as a religious language by some Christian communities in Egypt.