what is the difference between arabic and hebrew languages?
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Hebrew and Arabic are different languages, so even though there are many similarities, there are also many differences. The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters, whereas the Arabic alphabet has 28. Arabic letters are written in cursive; Hebrew letters cannot be joined.
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They are not genetically related languages. Hindi is Indo-European; Arabic is Semitic. ... (Urdu, which is practically the same language as Hindi, is written with Arabic script, but Hindi is written with Devangari script.)
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Biblical Hebrew is the Hebrew language as it is used in the Bible. Most of the Bible was written in Biblical Hebrew, except a few chapters that were written in Aramaic. ... Modern Hebrew, spoken in Israel.
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Linguistically, however, Farsi and Hebrew are nothing alike. Farsi is an Indo-European language and thus distantly related to most of the languages of Europ... ... Linguistically, however, Farsi and Hebrew are nothing alike.
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Language family Hebrew is a Semitic language (a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages, languages spoken across the Middle East), while Yiddish is a German dialect which integrates many languages, including German, Hebrew, Aramaic, and various Slavic and Romance languages.
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While Hebrew is a Semitic language (subgroup of Afro-Asiatic languages) like Arabic and Amharic, Yiddish is a German dialect which uses many Hebrew words but with a very distinctive Ashkenazic pronunciation.
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It's tempting to think Arabic and Hebrew are similar because they're related. They are, after all from the same language family — Semitic languages. ... But Arabic and Hebrew are definitely NOT mutually intelligible. In fact, they might be about as similar as German and English.
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Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, and Arabic are all Semitic languages, but they are not mutually intelligible. ... Jews who have studied the Talmud would have some knowledge of Aramaic, but that's not Hebrew. Aramaic became the lingua franca, or dominant language, of the Levant for some centuries.
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The 'traditional' family tree for Semitic languages places Arabic in the South Semitic group, with Ethiopian languages such as Amharic, ,and South Arabian languages. Aramaic in this classification is grouped with Hebrew (both ancient and Modern) in a branch of Semitic named 'Canaanite', which also includes Phoenician.
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Classical Hebrew contains only biblical language, lacking any vocabulary to describe concepts that appeared after the first century ce. Modern Hebrew contains modern vocabulary plus a lot of borrowed vocabulary from Arabic, German, Yiddish, English, and other languages.
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No. Aramaic and Arabic are both Semitic languages, but Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language, which also includes the now extinct Amorite and Ugaritic, as well as Hebrew. Arabic is Central Semitic as opposed to Aramaic.
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Arabic is spoken by 1.2% of the Turkish population; most of those speakers are bilingual Arabic and Turkish speakers. Other minority languages include Circassian, spoken by more than 0.09% throughout the country, Greek, Armenian and Judezmo, a Romance language spoken by Jews.
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Modern Standard Arabic is very similar to classical (or Quranic) Arabic. ... Modern Standard Arabic uses new, modern words and phrases that didn't exist back when the Quran was written. MSA also pronounces words, groups words and elicits a different context between words than in Quranic Arabic.
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Actually, a closer partner for Hebrew might well be Amharic, the African- Semitic language of Ethiopia. Linguistically, of course, Amharic and Hebrew are not as closely related as Arabic and Hebrew.
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SUMERIAN LANGUAGE Babylonian and Assyrian are Semitic languages. The origin of Sumerian is unknown. It was different from the Semitic languages---Akkadian, Eblaite, Elmamite, Hebrew and Arabic---that followed and appeared not to have been related to Indo-European languages that emerged much later in India and Iran.
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Hebrew/Canaanite/Arabic is written right to left. Greek/Roman (and English and other European languages) opted for left to right.
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Arabic is a member of the Afro-Asiatic languages. ... The romance languages are related to Latin, the language of the Romans, thus Romance. They include Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Arabic doesn't even use the same alphabet.