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Arabic became the official language of Egypt when the Islamic Caliphate conquered Egypt in the 640s C.E. Arabic became the dominant Egyptian language (as opposed to Koine Greek or Byzantine Latin) in the mid-900s C.E. when Muslims became the majority of the Egyptian population.

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