Egyptian Arabic is considered the standard Arabic language dialect. I find it odd that Egyptian is used as the standard Arabic dialect. From what I understand

Egyptian Arabic is considered the standard Arabic language dialect. I find it odd that Egyptian is used as the standard Arabic dialect. From what I understand Egyptian Arabic is heavily influenced by ancient Egyptian. I would have assumed standard Arabic would be based on a dialect from Arabia (now Saudi Arabia). Egypt wasn't Arab until about the early 600s although I'm sure many people of Arab descent (Hejaz, Njad, etc) were there for many years. So to base the language on a place not Arab until only 1,400 years ago seems very recent to me. One example I saw of an old ancient Egyptian word in modern Egyptian was the word "titi" meaning "to walk slowly". Egyptians now pronounce it "tata". But an example (from the link) " ‘Nefertiti’ means ‘the beauty walking slowly’ ". https://www.arabicwithhamid.com/ancient-egyptian-words-still-used-in-egypt/ https://www.arabicwithhamid.com/ancient-egyptian-words-still...