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Egyptian Arabic (Marī مصري) is part of the Arabic macrolanguage of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It originated in the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt around the capital Cairo. Descended from the spoken Arabic brought to Egypt during the AD seventh-century Muslim conquest, its development was influenced mainly by the indigenous Copto-Egyptian language of pre-Islamic Egypt,[1][2][3] and later by other languages such as Turkish. Today Egyptian Arabic is the national language of Egypt, spoken by more than 76 million people. It is also understood across the Middle East due to the predominance of Egyptian media, making it one of the most widely spoken and most widely studied varieties of Arabic.