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Most Berber languages have a high percentage of borrowing and influence from the Arabic language, as well as from other languages. For example, Arabic loanwords represent 35% to 46% of the total vocabulary of the Kabyle language, and represent 51.7% of the total vocabulary of Tarifit.
May 16, 2015 · May 17, 2015. #2. Most Greek and Latin loans in Arabic came via Aramaic. In Hebrew and Aramaic, non-Semitic words are usually transcribed using the emphatic versions for /t/ and /k/ to avoid the [k]- [x] and [t]- [θ] allophone issue in those languages. This problem does not exist for /s/.
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For example, English has borrowed words and expressions from the Scandinavian languages, from French, Latin, Greek, and even from languages of different families like Arabic and Hebrew. In the same way, Arabic has borrowed from languages like Persian, Hindi, Greek and Latin.
The following words have been acquired either directly from Arabic or else indirectly by passing from Arabic into other languages and then into English. Most entered one or more of the Romance languages, before entering English. To qualify for this list, a word must be reported in etymology dictionaries as having descended from Arabic.
English too has its share of words borrowed from Arabic - typically words starting with "al." Some of these words had been borrowed by Arabic speakers themselves from other languages. For example, the English word "alchemy" comes from the Arabic كيمياء.
Arabic Language and Other Languages. In his study on Korean language's borrowing of English, Prihantoro (2009) confirms that loanwords, everywhere in the world, coexist with the native language; their usage, violation and shift are likely to happen "resulting in various word formation processes."
Original Arabic Word: الجبر (Al-jabr) الجبر (Al-jabr) One of the most iconic examples of Arabic influence on European languages is the word “algebra.”. This mathematical concept, widely used in modern mathematics, has its origins in the Arabic term “الجبر” (Al-jabr), meaning “reunion of broken parts.”. The word ...
