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Words of Arabic origin entered the French language. Most of them entered first in another Romance language before being borrowed by the French language. These languages are mainly Italian (and its dialects), Medieval Latin and Hispanic (Castilian, Catalan, Portuguese). A little number of words, mainly slang words came finally through dialectal ...
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]
An example of a text written in Arabic calligraphy Arabic , the native language of the Arabs , who originally came from the Arabian Peninsula , became the lingua franca of the Islamic (Arab) Empire (from CE 733 – 1492), which at its greatest extent was bordered by China and Northern India , Central Asia, Persia , Asia Minor , the Middle East ...
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A 2012 study found that, when writing in Levantine on Facebook, Arabizi is more common than the Arabic script in Lebanon, while the Arabic script is more common in Syria. [56] Several studies have reported that the complexity of Arabic orthography slows down the word identification process, [ 7 ] but Arabizi is not always read faster than the ...
Most Arabic loanwords in Yoruba entered through Hausa. [citation needed] Arabic words made their way into several West African languages as Islam spread across the Sahara. Variants of Arabic words such as كتاب kitāb ("book") have spread to the languages of African groups who had no direct contact with Arab traders. [100]
[9] [10] For example, the numeral "3" is used to represent the Arabic letter ع (ʿayn)—note the choice of a visually similar character, with the numeral resembling a mirrored version of the Arabic letter. Many users of mobile phones and computers use Arabish even though their system is capable of displaying Arabic script.
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