A surviving Egyptian language and its impact on the rest of North Africa (Maghreb)

A few weeks ago, I started a thread that discussed the (long-term) impact of a surviving Egyptian language on the pop culture of the rest of the Middle East, especially in the recording and motion-picture industry.

As the PoD is already given, how it will affect the rest of North Africa, especially in terms of language?

Share your thoughts, guys!
 
I dont think it is possible for your PoD and fuse Coptic and Arabic. One has to dominate and one has to be a minority/non existent.

If you make Coptic dominant, Islam wouldnt have spread in Egypt. The Arabs would have been expelled after years just like any other foreign power who ruled Egypt without their welcome.

The rest of North Africa would depend on how long the Arabs can hold on to it, if those years under Arab rule be sufficient to retain Islam/Arab ways or they reconvert back to Latin/Greek.

Coptic Egypt will just function like Christian Ethiopia. Not part of the Arabian/Islamic culture. The existence of Coptic Egypt would have more effect culturally towards Ethiopia or the surviving Eastern orthodox nations in Asia/Europe than Arab/Middle Eastern/rest of north africa.

For example, like Sicily, had it remained under Islamic rule, it wont be classified as Italian catholic culture but closer to Arabians.
 
Yes I'm interested. If Egypt remains a Christian or mostly Christian country one of two things will have happened. Either the Arabs will not have conquered it or the native Egyptians will have thrown them out fairly early.
In the first case north Africa will remain a mixture of Greek enclaves mixed with afroromance remnant Punic, Berber and maybe Vandilic.
In the second case It will depend on how arabized north Africa has become. Much of that happened after several Bedouin tribes moved in.
 
I dont think it is possible for your PoD and fuse Coptic and Arabic. One has to dominate and one has to be a minority/non existent.

If you make Coptic dominant, Islam wouldnt have spread in Egypt. The Arabs would have been expelled after years just like any other foreign power who ruled Egypt without their welcome..
I know, but I based my PoD on a possibility that an alternate Egypt could be like OTL Iran. But yeah, OTL situation of Persian and Coptic were very different.
 
I wonder what would that give to the berber languages and greek speaking areas in Libya then.

According to Wikipedia, there is some of the former in Egypt, as one (endengered) called Siwi in that big oasis area.


Note that even in muslim era, Persian and it's different forms still had a big litterary and cultivated creed in the east. Poesy in persian was common eastward.
 
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