6/22/09

ABOUT ARABIC

Arabic dialects
Colloquial Arabic " refers to the many national or regional dialects derived from Classical Arabic , Arabic dialects can be different from one country to another , that difference is a result of colonization and interaction with neighboring countries .colloquial Arabic has no rules or grammar .
Modern Standard Arabic is the official language of the Arab word its commonly understood among Arabs it is used in education , journalism , news , generally formal situations, but its not used as a daily language some Arab countries could not understand each other when they talk informal . For example Egyptians couldn’t understand Maghreb Arabic which is used in Tunisian, Algerian, Moroccan, and western Libyan, other Arabic dialects such as Gulf Arabic includes the dialects of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates,
Bahrain, and Qatar, North African Arabic covers the dialects of
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania and Libya.




Arabic's influence on other languages:
Arabic has influenced lots of languages such as Spanish ,French , Kurdish, Persian, Turkish , Malay, Indonesian and Portuguese.Many English words are derived from Arabic mostly through other European languages, such as mosque, camel, alcohol, gazelle , coffee , giraffe, rice, mirror , spinach , Jessamine, algebra, cotton ,lemon ,guitar and also sugar.There are some English words which represents specific science or an idea whose invention is credited to Arabs such as algebra.The great number of words in both English and Spanish beginning with "al" is an Arabic origin as "al " is the Arabic definite article such as alcohol "al" means "the".

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