and a half. XXX’s first language is Tigre‚ however he is also proficient in Arabic‚ Tigrinya‚ Bilen and Amara. Tigre is a south Semitic language spoken by about 800.000 people in Eritrea. Muslim Tigre is written in the Arabic script‚ whereas Christian Tigre is written in roman script. XXX is a Muslim Tigre speaker and a lot of characteristics of the language are very similar to Arabic. The differences between Arabic and English language vary from the range of sounds used to the emphasis placed
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exaggerate their numbers. Between 40 and 45 million Internet users were found in 16 Arab countries surveyed in late 2009‚ including Arab nationals and non-Arabic speakers in the region‚ according to the Arab Advisors Group‚ a research and consulting firm based in Amman‚ Jordan. The Arab Knowledge Report 2009 placed the number of Arabic-speaking Internet users at 60 million. Clearly‚ the region’s vast potential is recognized by Google‚ which sponsored its first
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(sociolinguistics) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Sociolinguistics Key concepts Code-switching Diglossia Language change Language ideology Language planning Multilingualism Prestige Areas of study Accent Dialect Discourse analysis Language varieties Linguistic description Pragmatics Variation People Sociolinguists Related fields Applied linguistics Historical linguistics Linguistic anthropology Sociocultural linguistics Sociology of language Category Category Portal Linguistics
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from 7 to 3 percent. Chinese and Arabic are on an upswing‚ but are still hard to find. Chinese went from 1 to 4 percent and Arabic from zero to 0.6 percent. The other languages important to the future of a global society are either losing popularity in our schools‚ or making only tiny gains from very low levels. They are taught in 4 percent of high schools with foreign language programs. Individual school decides which foreign languages to teach‚ based on a variety of factors including demand from
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Introduction to Medical Science * Stages of medical science effort: Stage 1: the stage of translation from foreign sources to Arabic. Stage 2: the stage of excellence & genuine contribution in which Islamic Physicians were the leaders of medical science. Famous names (in medical science): Ibn Sina & Al-Zahrawi. Stage 3: the stage of decline in which sciences (including medicine) became stagnant‚ especially after the 13th century. * Ibn Khaldoun: the civilized nomads possessed
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Mona Baker’s equivalence typology 1. Equivalence at word level- the meaning of single words and expressions; 2. Equivalence above word level- explores combinations of words and phrases (stretches of language); 3. Grammatical equivalence- deals with grammatical categories; 4. Textual equivalence- discusses the text level (word order‚ cohesion‚ etc.); 5. Pragmatic equivalence- how texts are used in communicative situations that involves variables such as writers‚ readers‚ and cultural
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because of the environmental effect. Without global cuisine the world would not be much of a “melting pot”. The menus/restaurants we have today have food from every culture around the world. If they just had food from our country there would be little variety to what we could eat‚ and without the seasonings it wouldn’t taste much good. Many or the most popular global cuisines we have in the world today include French‚ Italian‚ Chinese‚ Indian‚ Mexican‚ Japanese‚ Spanish‚ Greek‚ and Lebanese. The French
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almost every weekend most certainly wasn’t a norm. We Lebanese prefer a home cooked meal. The Lebanese culture has a huge variety of foods where as Americans have a small variety of foods. For example‚ Lebanese have a choice of Shawarma‚ Tabouli‚ and Hummus. Whereas Americans have mostly fast food. Music is listened to all around the world. In the Lebanese culture‚ we listen to Arabic and English music. We as Lebanese people only listen to English music because of cultural imperialism. When all the foreigners
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The gazal (Arabic/Pashto/Persian/Urdu: غزل; Turkish: gazel) is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain‚ with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient‚ originating in 6th century Arabic verse. It is derived from the Arabian panegyric qasida. The structural requirements of the ghazal are similar in stringency to those of the Petrarchan
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The Thousand and One Nights‚ generally known to the English‚ speaking world as the Arabian Nights‚ is a compendium of Arabic tales compiled between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. The collection starts with the story of King Shahrayar. Betrayed by his adulterous wife‚ he swears never to trust a woman again‚ deciding instead to marry a different virgin every night and have her executed the next day. He carries out his plan for three years‚ until his Vizier can no longer find a virgin to
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