Celtic and English Again

[Rick Mc Callister]

	I've been told by Egytians that colloquial Egyptian Arabic has a
fair share of Coptic "influence". I don't know if they were referring to
lexicon, morphology or both.
	Standard Arabic, of course, does have some Greek lexical substrate,
although what I've seen are mainly learned words.

[snip]

>Perhaps a comparable situation can be found in Egypt, which was
>Egyptian-speaking for yonks, then Greek speaking for nearly a thousand
>years, but now speaks Arabic with very little, if any, trace of either
>"substrate".

[snip]

Rick Mc Callister
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MUW
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rmccalli at sunmuw1.muw.edu