Chapter 1142: The Dying Language

When Zhang Zian and the others all entered the shop, the girl just stayed outside the shop to watch the wind. The middle-aged and elderly people in short sleeves concealed the shop door and waved at them, telling them not to rush to ask questions.

Gao Ke and He He felt uneasy. Although the old man and the girl looked very kind, the bad guys would not write the words "I am a bad guy" on their faces. How could they know that they just came out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's den?

Zhang Zian was even more puzzled, when did Fina come? When he went to rescue He He and the others just now, he acted together with Femas, because he knew that Fina could not condescend to save a woman who was not related to her for no reason and liked to kill herself.

He thought that Fina stayed in place with Xinghai and π, but what he didn't expect was that not only Fina, but also Xinghai and π had come here, but He Hegaoke and the others couldn't see it.

In fact, the shop was quite close to the accident site in a straight line, and the noise of the accident site could still be heard. The onlookers seemed to realize that they had slipped away at this time, cursed a few words in a dull manner, and dispersed.

The store door was pushed open, and the girl walked in with another local boy, then closed the store door again, nodded at the old man, took off the robe that covered her body, and threw it aside casually.

Under the robes, their attire was no different from that of Zhang Zian and the others. It was also a combination of shirts, polo shirts, sneakers and jeans.

When they opened the door, Old Tea also rushed in. It was looking for Feina and they couldn't find it just now. It smelled the smell and chased after it, and found that the scents of Zhang Zian and the elves met here.

The old man also breathed a sigh of relief, looked at everyone with a smile, and said in English: "Welcome, you must be shocked, take a rest first. I know you must have a lot of questions to ask, but it is safe now, don't worry, wait a minute I'll explain it to you. Sit wherever you want! Tea, or coffee?"

Ears hurt from the babbling Arabic before, but now they feel very cordial when listening to English. If Gao Ke and others can get into the graduate school, their English must be good. Zhang Zian's daily English conversation is not a problem, let alone Jack, who traveled to many countries when he was a child.

Zhang Zian and the others had a lot of questions to ask, but they did whatever they wanted. Infected by the calmness of the old man, they gradually regained their composure.

After tossing for a long time, they were indeed thirsty, so they found a chair to sit down and asked for the drink they wanted.

Within a few minutes, young men and women came out of the room with trays containing black tea and coffee for distribution to Zhang Zian and the others.

What Zhang Zian wanted was black tea, he took a sip and couldn't help grinning secretly, it's so sweet! Is the sugar here free of charge?

Egyptians, both male and female, are addicted to sweets, to the extent that there is no sweetness. Most of the food and drinks are terribly sweet, probably because they feel that they are hidden by the robes anyway, so they can be whatever they are, whatever they like.

After the young men and women delivered the drinks, they stood neatly beside the old man. The old man introduced: "My name is Lazart, and these two are my daughter Kate and my son Chris."

Zhang Zian and the others looked at each other. The names of the young brothers and sisters... have no Egyptian characteristics at all. They are very common European and American names.

Jack is a mixed-race child who grew up in a foreign country. It is not surprising to be named Jack, but the appearance of the three members of this family is very ordinary locals. How could...

Could it be that like Zhang Zian, he felt that the pronunciation of "Zian" was not standard for foreigners, so he gave himself an English name like "Jeff"?

It's not easy for them to ask questions face to face, each thinking in their own minds, but the next sentence of the old man Lazart made them suddenly understand.

Razat saw their doubts and said with a smile: "Oh, yes, we are Copts."

Zhang Zian's heart moved, he looked at Fina, and then at the brothers and sisters Mary and Chris, who looked frank and cheerful without being ostentatious, and carefully observed the appearance of the brothers and sisters. Below, you can find the thick eyebrows, deep eye sockets and high cheekbones of the brothers and sisters,

There are subtle differences in appearance from ordinary locals, and are closer to the appearance characteristics of southern Egyptians.

I see……

That would explain it.

The Copts are a minority in Egypt, accounting for about 10% of the Egyptian population. They claim to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians and Pharaohs. The most important thing is that they believe in Christianity, so they don’t care about physical contact between strange men and women.

Lazart took a sip of black tea and said, "Let me tell you what happened first, maybe it can answer your doubts. After I finish speaking, if you have any questions, feel free to ask."

After He He and the others had an accident, Zhang Zian rushed to help, while Fei Na and the other elves stayed where they were.

On the other hand, when Lazart came back from the church with a couple of children, he saw the sound of commotion in the street in front of him. He was afraid that there would be another commotion due to political instability, and he was very nervous, so he let his daughter Mary stay by his side and ordered Son Chris went up front to check on the situation.

When Razat gets along with his children in private, in order not to forget the origin and history of his own nation, he often speaks Coptic, and their conversation happened to be overheard by Fina.

Coptic has complex origins, being the final form of ancient Egyptian and a product of the Hellenization of the Egyptian language under Roman and Byzantine rule.

This language family was founded in the 3rd century AD. The writing system is based on Greek, and then borrowed some letters from the "secular" writing method evolved from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to represent pronunciations that do not exist in Greek, which is considered Greek. A combination of ancient Egyptian.

At present, the Coptic language is close to extinction, and few people use it anymore. Only a small number of Coptic people are still using it privately. I don’t know how long it will be until the official extinction.

However, in history, this language has played a huge role - the French philologist Champollion was able to discover the secret of the Rosetta Stone because of his proficiency in Coptic, and finally deciphered the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Coptic language is like the pinyin of Chinese, and the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are like the glyphs of Chinese. When the pinyin and the glyphs correspond one by one, the secret of hieroglyphics is revealed.

Just as Zhang Zian guessed, Fina was not interested in helping He He, who was trying to kill herself, she squatted lazily on the spot and yawned, secretly blaming Zhang Zian for being troublesome.

However, at this moment, it heard a pronunciation very similar to ancient Egyptian in its ears, just like hearing a local accent again after many years, its whole body froze suddenly.

It turned its body mechanically, just in time to meet Razat's eyes.