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See also External links A abricot' ("apricot"): from Catalan albercoc, derived from the Arabic al barqūq (أَلْبَرْقُوق) which is itself borrowed from Late Greek praikokkion derived from Latin præcoquum, meaning "(the) early fruit" adoble (" adobe "): from Spanish adobe, derived from the Arabic al-ṭūb (الطوب) meaning "(the) brick of dried earth" albacore (" albacore ...
The glossary contains a list of Old French words and phrases written in Coptic script with their Arabic equivalents in Arabic script. [2] [3] There are 228 lemmata. [5] The great majority are single words. There are only a few sentences. [6] Coptic was probably chosen to represent the French because, unlike Arabic, it has characters for vowels. [7]
The inscription was found on 4 April 1901 by two French archaeologists, René Dussaud and Frédéric Macler, at al-Namara (also Namārah; modern Nimreh) near Shahba and Jabal al-Druze in southern Syria, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Damascus and 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast Bosra, and 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of the Sea of Galilee.
The earliest surviving manuscript with the text for the Oaths of Strasbourg (842), traditionally considered the first Old French text, dates from the 11th century. [121] 882: Balinese: dated royal inscription [122] c. 900: Old Occitan: Tomida femina: c. 959–974: Old Leonese: Nodicia de Kesos: c. 960–963: Italian: Placiti Cassinesi [123]
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The manuscripts are written in Arabic and several African languages, in the Ajami script; this includes, but is not limited to, Fula, Songhay, Tamasheq, Bambara, and Soninke. [3] The dates of the manuscripts range between the late 13th and the early 20th centuries (i.e., from the Islamisation of the Mali Empire until the decline of traditional ...
Arabic is a Semitic language and English is an Indo-European language. 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.
Berber languages have often been written in an adaptation of the Arabic alphabet. The use of the Arabic alphabet, as well as the competing Latin and Tifinagh scripts, has political connotations; Tuareg language, (sometimes called Tamasheq) which is also a Berber language; Coptic language of Egyptians as Coptic text written in Arabic letters [25]