Official Languages

Official status is a legal designation. It requires a constitution, language act or charter, which this platform has not yet loaded — speaker numbers cannot establish it.

Languages spoken here

Amharic (secondary) · Chechen (secondary) · Egypt Sign Language (secondary) · Egyptian Arabic (secondary) · French (secondary) · French (Quebec) (secondary) · German (secondary) · Gheg Albanian (secondary) · Gulf Arabic (secondary) · Hijazi Arabic (secondary) · Levantine Arabic (secondary) · Modern Greek (secondary) · Modern Greek (biblical terms) (secondary) · Moroccan Arabic (secondary) · Somali (secondary) · Tigre (secondary) · Tigrinya (secondary) · Turkish (secondary) · Urdu (secondary) · Urdu (Latin translit.) (secondary) · West Circassian (secondary) · Western Armenian (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Egypt

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Arab, Egyptian Muslim	68272000	Arabic, Egyptian	Islam
Arab, Saidi - Muslim	23997000	Arabic, Sa'idi	Islam
Egyptian, Coptic	7268000	Arabic, Egyptian	Christianity
Arab, Sudanese	4160000	Arabic, Sudanese	Islam
Arab, Saidi - Coptic	3906000	Arabic, Sa'idi	Christianity
Algerian, Arabic-speaking	2081000	Arabic, Algerian	Islam
Arab, Moroccan	1959000	Arabic, Moroccan	Islam
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken	1847000	Arabic, Gulf	Islam
Romani, Halebi	1066000	Arabic, Egyptian	Islam
Nubian, Arabized	637000	Arabic, Egyptian	Islam
Bedouin, Ali Awlad	609000	Arabic, Libyan	Islam
Nubian, Fedicca-Mohas	527000	Nobiin	Islam
Deaf	509000	Egyptian Sign Language	Unknown
Arab, Libyan	505000	Arabic, Libyan	Islam
Bedouin, Sinai	340000	Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi	Islam
Arab, Saudi - Najdi	294000	Arabic, Najdi	Islam
Arab, general	211000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Arab, Yemeni	210000	Arabic, Ta'izzi-Adeni	Islam
Arab, Saudi - Hijazi	202000	Arabic, Hijazi	Islam
Arab, Lebanese general	184000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Beja, Bisharin	126000	Bedawiyet	Islam
French	109000	French	Christianity
Arab, Palestinian	89000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Greek	69000	Greek	Christianity
Nubian, Kunuz	64000	Mattokki	Islam
Turk	52000	Turkish	Islam
Kharga, Selima	40000	Arabic, Libyan	Islam
Tigray, Tigrinya	40000	Tigrigna	Christianity
Tuareg, Algerian	37000	Arabic, Algerian Saharan	Islam
Baharia, Wahati	35000	Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi	Islam
Albanian	35000	Albanian, Gheg	Islam
German	35000	German, Standard	Christianity
Amazigh, Siwa	27000	Siwi	Islam
Somali	23000	Somali	Islam
British	22000	English	Christianity
Tigre, Eritrean	21000	Tigre	Islam
Amhara, Ethiopian	19000	Amharic	Christianity
Abaza, Arabized	17000	Arabic, Egyptian	Islam
Adyghe	16000	Adyghe	Islam
Armenian	15000	Armenian, Western	Christianity
Domari	10000	Domari	Islam
Chinese, general	8200	Chinese, Mandarin	Ethnic Religions
Chechen	7000	Chechen	Islam
South Asian, general	5800	Urdu	Islam
Fur	4700	Fur	Islam
Jewish, Egyptian-speaking	None	Arabic, Egyptian	Judaism

Languages

35 languages recorded here.

Adyghe

Albanian, Gheg

Amharic

Arabic, Algerian

Arabic, Algerian Saharan

Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi

Arabic, Egyptian

Arabic, Gulf

Arabic, Hijazi

Arabic, Levantine

Arabic, Libyan

Arabic, Moroccan

Arabic, Najdi

Arabic, Sa'idi

Arabic, Sudanese

Arabic, Ta'izzi-Adeni

Armenian, Western

Bedawiyet

Chechen

Chinese, Mandarin

Domari

Egyptian Sign Language

English

French

Fur

German, Standard

Greek

Mattokki

Nobiin

Siwi

Somali

Tigre

Tigrigna

Turkish

Urdu

All catalogue fields

160 fields recorded

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iso3: EGY
iso2: EG
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jpscalectry: 2
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officiallang: Arabic, Standard
rlg3primary: 6
religionprimary: Islam
percentchristianity: 9.5137253796117
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c_10_40window: Y
rog2: AFR
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workersneeded: 2163
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harvest_ctry: Egypt
harvest_ctryshort: Egypt
harvest_countrynamechinese: 埃及
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 埃及
harvest_countrynamedutch: Egypte
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harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Égypte
harvest_countrynamegerman: Ägypten
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Ägypten
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Mesir
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Mesir
harvest_countrynameitalian: Egitto
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Egitto
harvest_countrynamekorean: 이집트
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 이집트
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Egypt
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Egypt
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Egito
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Egito
harvest_countrynamerussian: Египет
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Египет
harvest_countrynamespanish: Egipto
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harvest_regioncode2414: 13
harvest_regioncode: 6
harvest_unsr: 015
harvest_worldabc: B
harvest_maniregioncode: NA
harvest_capital: Cairo
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harvest_literacyrate: 74
harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
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harvest_pctbahai: 0
harvest_pctbuddhism: 0
harvest_pctchinese: 0
harvest_pcthindu: 0
harvest_pctislam: 86.67
harvest_pctsikh: 0
harvest_pctjudaism: 0
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harvest_pctother: 0
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harvest_pctchristiananglican: 0
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harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 0
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 0
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: 0
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harvest_rop1: A001
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
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harvest_internetusers: 39.2
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harvest_flashmapzoomy: -118
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harvest_googlemaplng: 30
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harvest_ctrylongitude: 30.802498
harvest_securitylevel: 2
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/egypt/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 103
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harvest_v59country: Y
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=eg&joshua=eg
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-egypt
harvest_internetusage: 47
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2018
harvest_pray1040url: https://pray1040.com/pray-for-egypt/
harvest_voiceofmartyrsurl: https://www.persecution.com/globalprayerguide/egypt/
harvest_biblesocietyurl: http://www.darelketab.org/bs3/en/default.aspx
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harvest_areasquarekilometers: 997739
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 183
harvest_countryphonecode: 20
harvest_wincountryprofile: http://win1040.com/page.php?id=533
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harvest_stonyground: Y
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .eg
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/egypt
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00