RLG204H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Onomatopoeia, Afroasiatic Languages, Eye For An Eye
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Chapter 2: pre-islamic arabia: beliefs, values, way of life. The island of the arabs , as the arabian peninsula, is over one million square miles in area. The southern region, yemen and the hadramaut coast are affected by the indian ocean monsoons. Empty quarter (al-rub al-khali): the southern sector of the peninsula, north of hadramaut and northeast of yemen. The manufacturing of serbia is the creation of the component. A narrow strip of desert called al-dahna is connected to the. Hejaz: the western sector of arabia, from below the latitude of the sinai peninsula in the north. The arabs are semites. i semites: they speak a language belonging to a large family of related tongues, including hebrew, aramaic, and syriac, as well as ancient akkadian and assyrian. It is part of an even larger language group called afro-asiatic. Afro-asiatic: includes the berber languages, amharic, and other ethiopic tongues, ancient egyptian, and coptic.
