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1 day ago · Biblical Hebrew (עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית (Ivrit Miqra'it) ⓘ or לְשׁוֹן הַמִּקְרָא (Leshon ha-Miqra) ⓘ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanite branch of Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the Mediterranean ...
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1 day ago · Ārāmāyā in Syriac Esṭrangelā script Syriac-Aramaic alphabet. Aramaic (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: ארמית, romanized: ˀərāmiṯ; Classical Syriac: ܐܪܡܐܝܬ, romanized: arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula ...
1 day ago · Hangul is the official writing system throughout Korea, both North and South. It is a co-official writing system in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County in Jilin Province, China. Hangul has also seen limited use by speakers of the Cia-Cia language in Indonesia.
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1 day ago · Poetry (a term derived from the Greek word poiesis, "making"), also called verse, is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meaning.
1 day ago · Newar (English: / n ə ˈ w ɑː r /), known officially in Nepal as Nepal Bhasa, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Newar people, the indigenous inhabitants of Nepal Mandala, which consists of the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding regions in Nepal.
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1 day ago · Eduard Yechezkel Kutscher: A History of the Hebrew Language. Jerusalem 1982. Angel Sáenz-Badillos: A History of the Hebrew Language. Cambridge 1996. Joel M. Hoffman: In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language. New York / London 2004. Ghilʿad Zuckermann: Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave ...
1 day ago · Pre-Islamic Arabia (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية قبل الإسلام), referring to the Arabian Peninsula before Muhammad's first revelation in 610 CE, is referred to in Islam in the context of jahiliyyah (lit. ' ignorance/stupidity '), highlighting the prevalence of paganism throughout the region at the time.
