Another post which has a lot more irrelevant than relevant stuff, but I thought that it might be of interest. Andrew Dalby is an expert on linguistics and has recently published a book looking at the death of languages today (apparently a language is dying every two weeks). In this piece he lists 10 languages which are dying or have already died, of which ancient Egyptian is one. Others include Cherokee and Cornish - and, most surprisingly, French!
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The article is slightly inaccurate re: Coptic being well and truly dead and the liturgy being a 'thing of the past'. Today, the Coptic language only survives because of the liturgy. That may be dying out but, afaik, it still goes on today.
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