| OCR Text |
Show CHAPTER II ETHODOLOGY Arabic is the native tongue of the entire of the Arabian.Peninsula. This peninsua' is indigenuous population considered the center which Arabic spread after the initial Arab conquests in the seventh tury A.n. one Today Arabic is spoken, with many local hundred million pee p Le who live in the area from cen- variations, by about from Morocco the to Persian co i r, As .a Semitic' The development. period language, Arabic pre-Islamic difficult most to believed that Arabic as of gral part In other era passed through is.cot:lsidered by' its trace ,00 has established'. beginning and Kaldean, Hebrew' Phoenician, most sch<;>lars.as the developed. while is it s and other Semitic its people to Phoenicia?,Mesootamia" generally an inte- languages. and the Arabian Penin- sula" where the language of each grup differd according environment, ,and resulted. the and thus it H0wever words, the mether Semitic language developed.before the dis- persion of ingly, stages of many language But in peninsula, as ijaz Accord ... distinguish it from the Arabic branched off in different 1 , regions, such local from other Semitic groups characteristics which this its the birth of the.Semitic dialects. of Arabia becqme distinct ,acquired certain other dialects. in to and Yemen. From ijijaz came the Arabic dialect 2 by whch the Arabs communicate. 'lJirji Zayd;n, Hilal), p , Al Lughatu AI ... Islam, it was known as the Arabiya K; )'inun ay (Cairo'Dar al 29. 2Zayd;n,:op.Git. part ... Before of Arabia differed tells greatly that Arabic culture in the northern from that of the southern part during us |