Encyclopedia - Varieties Of Arabic: Encyclopedia - Varieties Of Arabic
The Arabic language is a Semitic language. It has many varieties. This entry looks at spoken varieties of Arabic, distinguishing them fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab: Encyclopedia - Arab
The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ʻarab) are a large and heterogenous ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa, originatin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Varieties Of Arabic: Encyclopedia Ii - Varieties Of Arabic - Morphological And Syntactic Variation
All dialects, sedentary and Bedouin, share the following innovations from Classical Arabic (CA): The dominant order is subject-verb rath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - Who Is An Arab?
The definition of who an Arab is has several aspects: Ethnic identity: someone who considers himself to be an Arab (regardless of racial...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - Religions
Before the coming of Islam, most Arabs followed a religion featuring the worship of a number of deities, including Hubal, Wadd, Al-Lat, M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Varieties Of Arabic: Encyclopedia Ii - Varieties Of Arabic - Sedentary Vs. Bedouin
A basic dialectal distinction that cuts across the entire geography of the Arabic-speaking world is between sedentary and Bedouin varieti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Varieties Of Arabic: Encyclopedia Ii - Varieties Of Arabic - General Varieties
The main division is between the Maghreb (North Africa) varieties (characterized by a first person singular in n-) and those of the Middl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - Traditional Genealogy
Medieval Arab genealogists divided the Arabs into three groups: the "ancient Arabs", tribes that had been destroyed or vanished, such as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arab: Encyclopedia Ii - Arab - History
The first written attestation of the ethnonym "Arab" occurs in an Assyrian inscription of 853 BC, where Shalmaneser III lists a King Gind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Varieties Of Arabic: Encyclopedia Ii - Varieties Of Arabic - Post-islamic Or Post-arab Expansion
Western varieties: Maghreb Arabic Koines: Moroccan Arabic (ISO 639-3:ary) Algerian Arabic (ISO 639-3:arq , saharan: aao) Tunisian Arab...   » Read the article