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Efai is an Obolo language spoken in Nigeria.
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Efe is a language spoken by the Efe pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Efik is an Obolo language spoken in Nigeria.
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Efutop is a Bantoid language spoken in Nigeria.
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Ega is a Kwa language spoken in Ivory Coast.
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Eggon is a language spoken in Nigeria.
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The Egyptian language is the language spoken in ancient Egypt. Its daughter language, Coptic, died out in the 17th century AD. It thus has one of the longest histories of any language. There is a vast literature, both secular and religious. From 650 BC the classicizing tendencies of the scribes gave way to Demotic Egyptian, and Demotic inscriptions are found until the mid- 5th century AD. Coptic became dominant in the 4th century AD, but started to decline after the introduction of Arabic in the 7th century. Egyptian inscriptions were written in hieroglyphs. There were also two cursive scripts based on the hieroglyphs: Hieratic, used for religious documents; and Demotic, for ordinary documents. Coptic was written in the Greek alphabet, with seven extra letters taken from Demotic. Egyptian is part of the Afro-asiatic group of languages, a larger group which includes Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and the Semitic languages.
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