The palatalization of Proto-Semitic gīm /g/ to Arabic /d͡ʒ/ jīm, is most probably connected to the pronunciation of qāf /q/ as a /g/ gāf (this sound change also occurred in Yemenite Hebrew), hence in most of the Arabian peninsula (which is the homeland of the Arabic language) ج is jīm /d͡ʒ/ …

The origins of Arabic. Arabic belongs to the Semitic language group, as does Hebrew. Linguists dispute where the Semitic languages originated, but do know the languages flourished in the coastal areas of the Levant and in the Tigris-Euphrates River basin. Both the north and south …

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah [al ʕaraˈbijːa] or عَرَبِيّ, ʿarabīy [ˈʕarabiː] or ) is a Semitic language that first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE. It is the lingua franca of the Arab world and the …

Going from Arabic -> Hebrew, Hebrew -> Arabic or Dialect -> Standard is also very easy as most of the work is already done with shared vocabulary as well as the common grammar. Semitic …

Arabic is classified as a Semitic language because it belongs to the same language family as Hebrew. But does speaking a language similar to Hebrew a sufficient reason to call Arabs …

Arabic and Hebrew are two languages from the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They’re the two most well-known languages in the Middle-East and they’re both the liturgical …

So, Arabic and Hebrew (not Jewish) belong to the Semitic branch of the wider Afro-Asiatic language family making them both Semitic and Afro-Asiatic peoples. However, Arabic and …

A little bit. There are many similarities and commonalities between both, as well as differences. But, generally, they have very same sounds. They are both Semitic languages. However, the …

With 21,811,600 total speakers as of 2007, including around 4,000,000 second language speakers, Amharic is the most widely spoken language of Ethiopia and second-most commonly spoken …