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Classical Arabic

Main article: Arabic.
Verses of the Koran in classical Arabic, Arabic script in cursive.

The classical Arabic History of Arabic

The history of the Arabic language accompanies the birth and evolution of language registers gradually diversified by the effect of diglossia. The language distinguishes a literary register of Arabic and a register vernacular involving many Arabic dialects often unwritten.

Arabic literary

Arabic literature develops in classical Arabic, leading to the literal Arabic used today in the media and the web ( internet ).

Arabic literary pre-Quranic

The pre-Classical Arabic Koran originated in central and northern Arabian Peninsula and is distinguished from the Yemeni Arabic .

The oldest inscription found in classical Arabic Koranic pre-date 328 of the current era, known as "registration Namarah "alphabet Nabataean , discovered in Syria South in April 1901 by two French archaeologists Rene Dussaud and Frederick Macle .

Quranic Arabic literary

Main article: Qur'an.

The Koran is written in a language called Arabic Koranic very close to the old classical Arabic, even if at the date of the writing in the sacred text at the beginning of the reign of the Umayyads , one can still perceive traces of Arabic oldest dating back to antiquity.

The Muslim conquest in the seventh century this language allows to spread throughout the southern Mediterranean in particular as the language of the Koran and of administration .

Arabic literary post-Qur'anic

The Arabic literary classic is a post-Koranic forms of Arabic used in the Middle Ages in literature during the Caliphate Umayyad and Abbasid (between the seventh and ninth centuries). This language is based on the dialects of medieval Arab tribes.

Arabic contemporary literary

Main article: Modern Standard Arabic.

Modern Standard Arabic is a modernized form of classical Arabic, his direct descendant, used in the media and official discourse . While the lexicon and stylistic differ between Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, the morphology and syntax of the language have changed little .

Dialects Arab

Main article: Arabic dialect.

The 'Arab dialect "are far more advanced compared to the classical Arabic .

Linguistics

This section does not purport to duplicate that on the language in the main article devoted to the Arabic language. Are treated here as the specific grammatical (and those of the pronunciation and writing) of classical Arabic in its three versions pre-Quranic, Koran, and post-Qur'anic.

pronunciation of classical Arabic

Main article: Arabic pronunciation.

The pronunciation of Arabic is studied by three complementary linguistic sciences should not confuse the phonetics , the phonology , and speech therapy. The latter is normative and includes the study of cantillation Arabic liturgical texts.

Writing Classical Arabic

Main article: Writing Arabic.

Grammar of Classical Arabic

Main article: Arabic Grammar.

Arabic grammar studies the formation of words, morphology , and composition into sentences, the syntax.

Morphology of Classical Arabic

Main article: Semitic languages.

Classical Arabic is a Semitic language like Hebrew , the Aramaic or Akkadian. The peculiarity of Semitic languages are the roots of words based triliteral consonantal.

Examples:

  • KTB: Write
  • k a t a b a,
  • kt u b u are,
  • k i t to b,
  • I was a b kt,
  • my kt or b,

These words contain all three consonants ktb, which form the root of the word.

See also

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Bibliography

Arranged by date of publication of books:

  • TF Mitchell, Professor of English and general linguistics at the University of Leeds, Colloquial Arabic, a collection Teach Yourself Books, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London 1962, tenth printing 1980, ( ISBN 0-340-26519-1 )
  • Boutros Hallaq, Fellow of the University, Arabic for all series "Languages for All", Presses Pocket, 1984 ( ISBN 978-2-266-01340-8 )
  • Michel Neyreneuf and Ghalib Al-Hakkak, Arabic Grammar Active Collection "modern languages", Le Livre de Poche, Paris 1996.
  • Thomas Bauer, Writing Arabic, article in The World's Writing Systems, collective work under the supervision of Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • Toufic Fahd, Studies of history and civilization Arab Isis Publishing, 1997, ( ISBN 975-428-106-8 ) online version
  • Mathieu Guidere, Arabic grammatically correct! Grammar of the Arabic alphabet, Editions Ellipses, Paris 2001, ( ISBN 2-72980923-6 )
  • Ghani Alani , The Writing of Writing: The Treaty of Arab-Muslim calligraphy, ed. Dervy, 2002.
  • Regis Blachere and Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Grammar of Classical Arabic, Maisonneuve et Larose, fifth edition, 2004.
  • Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, Abbas Al-Tons, A Textbook for Arabic: Part Two. Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 2005 ( ISBN 978-1589010963 ), 1 st edition 1997 ( ISBN 0-87840-350-7 )
  • Boutros Hallaq, Fellow of the University, Professor at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, Forty lessons to speak Arabic, 'languages for all ", Univers Poche, Pocket, Paris, 2009 ( ISBN 978-2-266 - 18910-1 )
  • Pocket Dictionary Mounged (French Arabic), Dar el-Mashreq, tenth edition, Beirut.

References

  1. The sources for this article include:
    • (In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " Classical Arabic "(see the list of authors )
      * Boutros Hallaq, Fellow of the University, Professor at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, Forty lessons to speak Arabic, see bibliography.
      * Regis Blachere and Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Grammar of Classical Arabic, see bibliography.
      * Toufic Fahd, Historical Studies and Arab civilization, see bibliography.
  2. "The Collapse of the Marib Dam and the Origin of the Arab" , March 30, 2005, http://web.archive.org/web/20080209193302/http://www.arabia-felix.com/printer_20.html , February 9, 2008
  3. A New Reading Of The Namrah Register, James A. Bellamy, 1985, from the Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 105, issue 1, pages = 31 to 51, published by American Oriental Society URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/601538
  4. a and b Harv, Watson, 2002 8
  5. Harv, Bin Muqbil, 2006, p. 14
  6. Harv, Bin Muqbil, 2006, p. 15


Varieties of Arabic
Western Arabic
Iberian Andalou
Maghreb Moroccan Algerian Tunisia
Sicilian-Arab Sicilian Arabic Maltese
Bedouin Libyan Saharan Hassania
Eastern Arabic
Nile Egyptian Saidi Sudan Chad
Levantine Syrian-Lebanese-Palestinian ( Lebanese Syrian Central North Syrian Palestinian urban ) Jordanian-Palestinian Palestinian Bedouin Cyprus
Mesopotamian Iraq ( gilit qeltu ) Anatolian Khuzestan Tajiks Uzbeki
Arabic Gulf Nejd Hejaz Yemen ( Sanaa of Taiz and Aden of Hadramaut ) Omanis Baharna Dhofar Shihhi
Variety diglossic Modern Standard Arabic Arabic dialect
Judeo-Arabic Judeo-Algerian Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Tunisian Judeo-Tripolitanian Judeo-Yemeni Judeo-Iraqi
Hoops Arab Sudanese Creole Nubi Babalia


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