Claim: Cleopatra does not speak a language that dates back to ancient Egypt.

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 .   It was spoken until the late 17th century , in the form of Coptic . The national language of modern Egypt is Egyptian Arabic , which gradually replaced Coptic as the vernacular language in the centuries after the Muslim conquest of Egypt .   Coptic is still used as the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and has several hundred fluent speakers today .