Culture of Egypt
Arabic is Egypt's official language, it came to Egypt in the 7th century, and the Egyptian Arabic dialect today has become the modern speech of the country. Of the many varieties of Arabic, it is the most widely spoken second dialect, due to the influence of Egyptian cinema and media throughout the Arabic-speaking world. Egypt's position in the heart of the Arab world has also had reversed influence, adopting many words, phrases, and proverbs from neighboring Arabic speaking areas such as the Maghreb area and the Mashriq. Today the daily Egyptian Arabic adopted several French, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Armenian and English words to its dictionary, as well as keeping several other words from its own ancient languages such as Coptic and Demotic.
List of newspapers in Egypt
Egypt has the highest number of printed publications in the region. The number of Arabic newspapers in the country was about 200 in 1938. There were also 65 newspapers published in languages other than Arabic. For instance, there were many newspapers published in Turkish in the country from 1828 to 1947. By 1951 Arabic newspapers was about 400 and those published in other languages was 150. As of 2011, daily newspaper circulation in Egypt was more than 4.3 million copies.