What languages where spoken before the Arab expansion?

by ThePeasantKingM

Iranians spoke Persian and managed to keep their language after the Arab conquest, but Egypt couldn't keep Coptic expect for some small Christian communities. What other languages where spoken where Arabic is now spoken? What was spoken in Irak, Syria, Lebanon...etc?

cleopatra_philopater

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