Goa'uld (art-goauld) is an extraterrestrial language in the Egyptian language family. The Egyptian language (egy) evolved out of Goa'uld during Ra's occupation of ancient Egypt. Goa'uld itself evolved from the primitive Unas language when the Goa'uld began using human hosts with their greater lexical ability. Since Ra's departure from Terra, Goa'uld has developed into several distinct dialects, including the Abydonian and Chulak dialects. Noted linguist Dr. Jackson commented on his first visit to Chulak that it was similar to some varieties of modern Arabic (ara). Unknown Goa'uld words can thus be presumed to be similar to Egyptian or it's modern descendent, Coptic (cop), or other Semitic words. Goa'uld may actually have been what contemporary linguists now call Proto-Semitic. Goa'uld is t