Languages of Egypt
Egyptian Arabic is the commonly spoken language, and is occasionally written in Arabic script, or in Arabic chat alphabet mostly on new communication services.
Egyptian Arabic
Sa‘īdi Arabic is a separate variety from Egyptian Arabic in Ethnologue.com and ISO 639-3 and in other sources, and the two varieties have limited mutual intelligibility. It carries little prestige nationally but continues to be widely spoken, with 19,000,000 speakers, including in the north by rural migrants who have adapted partially to Egyptian Arabic. For example, the Sa‘īdi genitive exponent is usually replaced with Egyptian "", but the realization of as is retained. Second-and third-generation migrants are monolingual in Egyptian Arabic but maintain cultural and familial ties to the south.