Claim: Cleopatra does not speak a language that dates back to ancient Egypt.
Evidence: By contrast , Cleopatra did learn to speak Egyptian and represented herself as the reincarnation of the Egyptian goddess Isis.
The Egyptian language was spoken in ancient Egypt and was a branch of the Afroasiatic languages.
Its earliest known complete written sentence has been dated to about 2690 BCE , which makes it one of the oldest recorded languages known , along with Sumerian.