Old Arabic is the name for any Arabic language or dialect continuum before Islam. Various forms of Old Arabic are attested in scripts like Safaitic, Hismaic...
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varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. This distinction...
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Old Hijazi, is a variety of Old Arabic attested in Hejaz (the western part of Saudi Arabia) from about the 1st century to the 7th century. It is the variety...
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Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (Arabic: العربية الفصحى, romanized: al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā, lit. 'the most eloquent classic Arabic') is the standardized...
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The Arabic alphabet, or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left...
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Chadian Arabic (Arabic: لهجة تشادية), also known as Shuwa Arabic, Western Sudanic Arabic, or West Sudanic Arabic (WSA), is a variety of Arabic and the...
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restructured under pressure of Arabic. It was originally thought that all four members of this group were dialects of one Old South Arabian language, but...
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Persian alphabet (redirect from Perso-Arabic Script)
also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language. It is a variation of the Arabic script with five additional...
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Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. Arabic is a Semitic language...
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Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA) is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late...
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bulk of the oldest poetic material in Arabic, but Old Arabic inscriptions reveal the art of poetry existed in Arabic writing in material as early as the...
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Kormakitis Cypriot Arabic (Arabic: العربية القبرصية), also known as Cypriot Maronite Arabic or Sanna, is a moribund variety of Arabic spoken by the Maronite...
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symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Judeo-Arabic (Judeo-Arabic: ערביה יהודיה, romanized: ‘Arabiya Yahūdiya; Arabic: عربية يهودية, romanized: ʿArabiya Yahūdiya...
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The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely...
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This article contains Levantine written in Arabic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see احنا and احنا appearing as two different...
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they had possibly merged to [ɮˁ]. In contrast with Old Hejazi and Classical Arabic, Nabataean Arabic may have undergone the shift [e] < *[i] and [o] <...
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Najdi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة النجدية, romanized: al-lahja an-najdiyya, Najdi Arabic: نجدي, Najdi pronunciation: [nadʒˈdi]) is the group of Arabic varieties...
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Arabic grammar (Arabic: النَّحْوُ العَرَبِيُّ) is the grammar of the Arabic language. Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities...
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The romanization of Arabic is the systematic rendering of written and spoken Arabic in the Latin script. Romanized Arabic is used for various purposes...
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reconstruction of Proto-Arabic, since they show many features that are shared by epigraphic Old South Arabian and Classical Arabic. The common features set...
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The Arabic language family is divided into several categories which are: Old Arabic, the literary varieties, and the modern vernaculars. The genealogical...
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Paleo-Arabic (or Palaeo-Arabic, sometimes called pre-Islamic Arabic or Old Arabic) is a script that represents a pre-Islamic phase in the evolution of...
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The ten Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are the most commonly used symbols for writing numbers. The term often also implies a positional...
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Hejazi Arabic or Hijazi Arabic (HA) (Arabic: اللهجة الحجازية, romanized: al-lahja al-ḥijāziyya, Hejazi Arabic: حجازي, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [ħɪˈdʒaːzi])...
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Hismaic (redirect from Hismaic (Old Arabic))
The Hismaic script may have been used to write Safaitic dialects of Old Arabic, but the language of most inscriptions differs from Safaitic in a few...
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Maghrebi Arabic (Arabic: اللَّهْجَة الْمَغارِبِيَّة, romanized: al-lahja l-maghāribiyya, lit. 'Western Arabic' as opposed to Eastern or Mashriqi Arabic), often...
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which dates to the second century. The earliest Old Arabic inscription most resembling of Classical Arabic is found in Ayn Avadat, being a poem dedicated...
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Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian (Arabic: العاميه المصريه) [el.ʕæmˈmejjæ l.mɑsˤˈɾejjɑ]), or simply Masri (also Masry, lit. 'Egyptian')...
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old Arabic/Aramaic names. In 1945, four of them received names of Turkish origin by law number 4696 passed January 10, 1945. Islamic calendar Arabic names...
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Allah (redirect from God (Arabic))
Allah (/ˈælə, ˈɑːlə, əˈlɑː/; Arabic: ﷲ IPA: [əɫ.ɫɑːh] ) is the Arabic word for God, particularly the God of Abraham. Outside of the Middle East, it is...
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