GERMANIC LANGUAGES Classification of Modern Germanic Languages and their Distribution Classification of languages means their placement into families or phyla [‘failə] on the basis of lexical or typological similarity or shared ancestry. Languages may thus be classified either genetically or typologically. A genetic classification assumes that certain languages are related in that they have evolved from a common ancestral language. This form of classification employs ancient records as well
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greatly from not only the alphabet but also a major proportion of its vocabulary. Their direction of writing was inconsistent for a while but finally settled on Left to Right which we then adopted as our writing direction after a period of time. All of the alphabets of the world commenced from the Phoenician alphabet and it took the Greeks 900 years to use it consisting only of 19 characters. It didn’t have any vowels. We then used their ideas to make vowels into our alphabet. That’s where the idea
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visit again to see my loving family‚ try some crazy new foods and venture into areas I have never experienced before. The love I have for my family and their culture in the Middle East is immense. Although I get a pretty good dose of culture with my Arabic family members living in Southern California‚ I would take any opportunity I had to fly more than half way around the world to see them again. I have a huge number of extended family living throughout the country and some surrounding areas. My dad
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aims to surpass all cultural barriers that the ST may present. This procedure is based on explanations‚ additions and change in words order. For instance‚ the English metaphor "he is a ship without compass" has no cultural equivalent expression in Arabic‚ thus‚ the saying could be translated as "انه يعيش في عالم من الضياع لا موجه له فيه ". Actually‚ paraphrase is not only used in
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Bob Fernea travel to Marrakech‚ Morocco because Mr. Fernea receives a scholarship grant to study anthropology in Morocco. From the start of the book‚ it is easy to admire Fernea because she is ambitious‚ “We would all learn the dialect of Moroccan Arabic‚ so different from the Egyptian and Iraqi dialects we had spoken a long time ago. Hopefully we would learn something about Morocco and North Africa.” As the story progressed‚ I realized how difficult these tasks would be to achieve. Through her narratives
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economic growth throughout dar al-Islam. Since the 7th century C.E.‚ the Quran has served as the cornerstone of Islamic society. It established Arabic as a flexible and powerful medium of communication. In other words‚ Arabic text was the only definitive and reliable scripture of the Quran. So as Muslim missionaries spread the message of Allah‚ Arabic text began to become familiar to different societies. The Quran was also used by Muslim theologians and jurists who needed guidance on how to formulate
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Middle East as a reference to its geographic relationship to Europe and East Asia (not western‚ nor far eastern). The place is lumped into a single region because the majority shares an ethnicity (Arab)‚ religion (Islam) and language (Arabic‚ though Iran speaks Persian. What makes it difficult for foreigners to come in close contact to the middle east and discover the culture of their locals is the fact that it is an unstabilized part of the world which went through lots
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or the Christian knights from Western Europe came to the ME‚ in order to claim back their holy city Jerusalem‚ they were awed in wonder as they saw how spices came and went‚ and the transfusion of many enlightening ideas took place. They witnessed Arabic numerals‚ philosophical ideas‚ and even amends to their own ideas. As a result‚ they used the Arabs’ ideas to compensate for the lost Greek knowledge. Overall‚ the Italian merchant class flourished with wealth from the new exotic spices and goods
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There exist three basic components of traditional Islamic art: calligraphy‚ geometric patterns‚ and floral and vegetal motifs. These three stylistic tools are beautifully rendered and masterfully integrated into complex works of art‚ but there is no question that artistic expression is severely limited under these categorizations. However‚ this limitation stems from Islamic theology and concept of art. The main reason for the limitation imposed on visual art is the Islamic theological prohibition
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Introduction: Throughout the centuries‚ media has played a key role in the development of companies and in the incubation of capitalism mutations. The history of media shows that media and its effects have been around since the beginning of humanity and have been conglomerating into different nations developing the methods of communication. According to the French radical theoretician Regis Debray‚ there are “three historical ages of transmission technologies: the logo-sphere‚ the grapho-sphere
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