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1 day ago · Approximate distribution of the Semitic languages around the 1st century AD. Arabic is currently the native language of majorities from Mauritania to Oman, and from Iraq to Sudan. Classical Arabic is the language of the Quran. It is also studied widely in the non-Arabic-speaking Muslim world.
- Afroasiatic Languages
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes...
- West Semitic
The grouping supported by Semiticists like Robert Hetzron...
- East Semitic
They were influenced by the non-Semitic Sumerian language...
- Ethiopian Semitic Languages
Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic,...
- Proto-Semitic Language
Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common...
- Egyptian Arabic
Arabic had been already familiar to Valley Egyptians since...
- Arabic
Origins. In the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, northern Arab...
- Afroasiatic Languages
4 days ago · Arabic, the language of the Islamic sacred scripture (the Qurʾān), was adopted throughout much of the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the rapidly established supremacy of Islam in those regions.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · There are large numbers of personal and place names of Arabic etymology in Greek inscriptions and documents dating from the last two centuries BC to the seventh century AD.
1 day ago · Apr. 28, 2024, 10:05 PM ET (Jerusalem Post) Hamas terrorists kidnap Bedouin doctor, use him as bait for IDF soldiers. Qurʾān with illuminated manuscript pages featuring ink, gold, and lapis, late 18th–early 19th century. (more)
5 days ago · The available manuscript collections include the private collections of some of the earliest Leiden scholars of Middle Eastern languages, such as Josephus Scaliger, Franciscus Raphelengius and Jacobus Golius, as well as the Ottoman Turkish manuscripts acquired by Levinus Warner in Istanbul between 1645 and 1665.
