ARA212Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sacred Language, Semitic Languages, Middle Ages
Document Summary
Semitic language spoken by more then 200 million people, mostly in middle east and africa. Ranked 5th in the world in terms of number of native speakers. It is the liturgical language of the world"s muslim population. It is a language with extensive literary heritage and most widely used mode of international scientific communication throughout the middle ages. Written from right to left, and its letters are used with some variations in the writing system of some other languages such as pashto, urdu, sindhi, persian, and.
