Anciently

Arabic anciently supplanted Ancient Egyptian, both languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic language family.

Although anciently and irregularly built, this market-town is much resorted to by the neighbouring gentry, not less for the beauty of its position, than for the famed salubrity of its air.

Native Fijians are Melanesians, a kind of Australoid people, but they speak a Malayo-Polynesian language, perhaps adopted anciently from islander neighbours who were not Melanesians. My neighbours, the Wongs, who are multiracial from Fiji, know a bit of Fijian. They like learning English, but I say to them, "Your Fijian is much more beautiful!"

The anciently written inscriptions in the pyramids can still be read.