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      • The most widely accepted theory, which classifies Arabic within a Central Semitic grouping, postulates a relationship close to Aramaic and the Canaanite languages based on the similarities between their respective verb structures. It is written in a North Semitic script that is likely descended from the Nabataean alphabet.
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  2. 5 days ago · An Arabic word is composed of two parts: (1) the root, which generally consists of three consonants and provides the basic lexical meaning of the word, and (2) the pattern, which consists of vowels and gives grammatical meaning to the word.

  3. 8 hours ago · The Arabic alphabet (Arabic: الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ʾabǧadiyyah l-ʿarabiyyah [æl.ʔæb.d͡ʒæˈdɪj.jæ l.ʕɑ.rɑˈbɪj.jæ] or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ḥurūf al-ʿarabiyyah), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language.

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  4. 3 days ago · Modern distribution of the Semitic languages. Approximate historical distribution of Semitic languages. The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages.

  5. 3 days ago · Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [2] . Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula.

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  6. 4 days ago · Arab, one whose native language is Arabic. In modern usage, it embraces any of the Arabic-speaking peoples living in the vast region from Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast of Africa, to southwestern Iran, including the entire Maghrib of North Africa, Egypt and Sudan, the Arabian Peninsula, and Syria and Iraq.

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  7. Arabic writing is phonetic and generally consistent in rules, but there is a a very few exceptions, one of them is the word الرحمن , written without the middle Alif, even though it is pronounced with a long Alif vowel. You're doing good copying printed text, the common used writing is Naskh, once you learn the letters, start learning ...

  8. "A Thirst for Knowledge: Arabic Literacy, Writing Paper and Saharan Bibliophiles in the Southwestern Sahara." In The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa, Eds. Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon.

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