Egyptian People

Egyptians are the people originating from the country of egypt.

Egyptian people. In reading several books regarding egyptian travel this author was surprised to see the egyptian populous divided into four cultural groups consisting of copts bedouins nubians and egyptian peasants or fallahin. Kmt people ancient egyptians referred to their homeland as kmt conventionally pronounced as kemet. Although egypt has contributed a lot to various fields such as science literature and philosophy the country is primarily known for its unique architecture and artifacts which mark it out from other countries. Arabic is a branch of the semitic languages which in turn belongs to the afro asiatic language family together with berber ancient egyptian chadic and cushitic.

Some of egypt s most famous people were. According to cheikh anta diop the egyptians referred to themselves as black people or kmt and kmwas the etymological root of other words such as kam or ham which refer to black people in hebrew tradition. The population is concentrated in the lower nile valley a small strip of cultivable land stretching from the first cataract to the mediterranean and enclosed by desert both to the east and to the west.