Arabic - The Source of all languages
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Peace all,
I read through a book called "Arabic - The Source of All the Languages" by Muhammad Ahmad Mazhar. I know that there are many claims out there regarding this which really have no basis. This book, however, seems to be a serious attempt at exploring this subject. I am not a linguist and could not really evaluate the claims made in this book. I was hoping some of you out there may be able to give your more informed input on this work.
I would appreciate comments only from those who have read this book or make the effort to read it. This will ensure informed comment rather than an opinion on the subject without proper investigation of the book.
The book can be downloaded http//rapidshare.com/files/439876124/Arabic_Source.pdf
I look forward to your responses.
Imraan
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I took a look at it, but was disappointed. Many of the so-called similarities between , e.g., English and Arabic don't go further than mere coincidence, or the author of this book just takes a certain word and takes an Arabic synonym and present those as being true cognates. Dishonest at best. (You can find literally dozens of synonyms, or words with similar meaning.)This should be clear by the vast difference in grammar, phonology, and the vocabulary of those two languages. They are indeed totally unrelated( arguably very distantly related).
I rather go with the mainstream theory on language evolution, which classifies English as an Indo-European language(together with Urdu, Farsi, Latin, Greek, Dutch, French..) belonging to the Germanic branch(just like Dutch and German and..). , while Arabic is Afro-Asiatic language (together with some tribal languages spoken in North Africa like Amazigh) , belonging to the Semitic branch( together with Hebrew). Indeed, linguistically speaking Hebrew is the closest language to Arabic, although languages from the region which belong to very difference language families(thus sharing no ancestor with Arabic) have quite some lexical similarity, due to massive word borrowings from Arabic to Persian, Urdu and Turkish.
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The book begins with the quote of Ayat 3020 under which he has rather pasted the "traditional" translation, which only translates Arabic words and not the sentence/perception and thought conveyed by it. And the author does not seem to have even taken notice of the Verbal Noun of Form-VIII- while seleting the title of his book as "Arabic-the source of all languages".
And having relied upon the "traditional" or say steered translation, he started his work on the premises that knowledge is of two types. The sources from where one can have knowledge does not make knowledge as of two or many types.
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Can anybody share PDF cuz link is broken? Thx.
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Can anybody share PDF cuz link is broken? Thx.
I had it and read long back. I will search my data and send it.
Language Origin and Prime Language
The desire of communicating is the origin of language.
Language is the principal means used by human beings to communicate and share information. It is the main tool of transmitting information containing ideas and perceptions. Perception is a neurological process of observation and interpretation; acquiring and mentally interpreting information from the senses. Perception and word of a language are compulsorily complementary.
Language is considered unique to humans. Communication via speech is considered a dividing line between humans and animals. What in reality is the language and speech? It is a stream of sound at intervals which is a vibration that typically propagates as a wave of pressure travelling though medium of air, liquid or solid and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ears - auditory instrument. Thereby, in the meanings of communication and sociality, it is something common between humans and animals. The animals do have their own "languages" which are translatable, as disclosed by elevated Messenger of Allah the Exalted....................
http//haqeeqat.pk/TranslationDifferenceSource-Target-Language.htm
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Turkish.The Source of all languages...
