I recently found out that hebrew and Arabic are so closely related together in grammer and words.
Like,
(Whats ur name)
shem kha?? in hebrew,
esmokum in Arabic,
Beth al Maqdes in Arabic,
Beth ha Makdesh in hebrew,
Shalom in Hebrew,
Salam in Arabic,
Ma means (what) in Arabic and hebrew.
Midrasha means institute in Hebrew,
Medressa in Arabic.
all the numbers sound similar as well,
like these 1 to 10:
ehad, shnyim, shalosha, arba’a, khamesha, shisha,shiva’a, shmona, tisha, assara in hebrew
while,
wahed,athnain, thalatha, arbaa,khamsa, sittah, sab’ah, tamaniyah, tissa’a, ashara in arabic.
Elohim is plural if i am right. I am back now, had gone on vacations as the uni closed for spring break... and did u know that hebrew and arabic alphabet are derived from Aramaic language which is very closely related to Arabic. Allah is referred to as Allah in Quran in the Amaraic text of the bible..
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No i am not into linguistics, and whatever u wrote probably means nothing haa haa. I was just reading hebrew texts and found out that it resembled very closely with arabic and aramaic thats it.. heeee hee.
the Persians/Iranians also had aramaic as their official language. And who are these peple who use aramaic in Iraq? do u know? I though they only use aramaic now in Lebanon and Christians in Palestiine.
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aramaic was also used as lingua franca during Greco-Bactrian rule. The Assyrians were one of the most powerful people who took over the fertile crescent in mesopotamia and carved out an empire that would include Iraq, parts of today's Iran, parts of asia minor, noth easrtern and western party of the middle east. They were also acceptionally brutal by the way. But are responsible for many great acheivements including the hanging gardens of babylon created by Asurbanipal. Nebuchadnezzar the famous assyrian king is famous for the hebrew dispora. Their official language was aramaic though they probably wernt the progenitors of it.
Assyrians still live in Iraq where they are a small minority, many are spread over the World and their language and script used is still aramaic.
Lebanese by the way are not assyrian, they are mixture of several people with the phoenician trait being very dominant, since they are still today sometimes referred to as "foneqeen" by the arabs. It is possible that aramaic is also used in syria and countries of transjordan.
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Originally posted by Sultan Toora:
**aramaic was also used as lingua franca during Greco-Bactrian rule. The Assyrians were one of the most powerful people who took over the fertile crescent in mesopotamia and carved out an empire that would include Iraq, parts of today's Iran, parts of asia minor, noth easrtern and western party of the middle east. They were also acceptionally brutal by the way. But are responsible for many great acheivements including the hanging gardens of babylon created by Asurbanipal. Nebuchadnezzar the famous assyrian king is famous for the hebrew dispora. Their official language was aramaic though they probably wernt the progenitors of it.
Assyrians still live in Iraq where they are a small minority, many are spread over the World and their language and script used is still aramaic.
Lebanese by the way are not assyrian, they are mixture of several people with the phoenician trait being very dominant, since they are still today sometimes referred to as "foneqeen" by the arabs. It is possible that aramaic is also used in syria and countries of transjordan.
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Lebanese and Christians in the Mid east use aramaic as a relegious language as it was the language of Jesus Christ. Although Most lebanese are not ethnically Arabs, they use Arabic language.. And all three Aramaic, Arabic and Hebrew are Semitic cousin languages.
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Rezajan, the language of ancient hebrews was hebraic which was a dead language and they are now trying to relive it. Aramaic was more prestigious language, hence it is possible for most people of that time to adopt this langue as the lingua franca.
Arabic and its origin is of later years since it was the southern semites who gave rise to arabs probably from intermingling of several stocks including akkadians, chaldeans and other perhaps arameans. Ibrahim (a.s) was real babylonian, so prophet muhammad (saw) was also part Chaldean.
Ancient hebrew although is different to modern one spoken in Israel and around the world by the jewry, it still is similar to the ancient one, and a person who could read the old testament can understand the modern hebrew as well. Today hebrew has adopted many latin words, the most used one is “Teghogh” or terror.
For the other person who said about falash calling prayer building masjid, it is because of borrowing the arabic word from their muslim countrymen as you know ethiopia has large muslim community.
The Chaldeans were a semitic people who took over the fertile cresecet from the assyrians and their period is referred to as the that of "new Babylonian". They like the earlier akkadian also came form the arabian peninsula.
I just did a paper on Islamic Spain for my Medieval European History class. Any book you read on this topic will most likely have a large portion of it devoted to the fact that the Jews played an important part in spreading Arabic/Islamic knowledge throughout europe. Under Arab rule, christians, and especially Jews, flourished in Spain. Most of the Hebrew language and grammer was developed at that time under heavy influence of Arabic. same goes for poetry and science etc. That is why the two languages are similar in many ways
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