Classical Arabic

Altarabisch is the Arabic form of language on which the classical Arabic written language is based.

The type of language the old Arabic is very ancient and Akkadian comparable in many ways.

Characteristic of the ancient Arabic is the preservation of auslautenden short vowels and the nunation, where essentially the case inflection and the three modes of the old Arabic based.

The ancient Arabic has largely retained the common Semitic phonemes. Only the three different sibilance of the common Semitic were reduced to two.

When the ancient Arabic language type was replaced by Neuarabischen, is not understood.

After the Muslim by most scholars and some Orientalists, such as Theodor Nöldeke, Johann Fück and Joshua Blue represented thesis that the ancient Arabic language type has been replaced after the time of Prophet Muhammad from Neuarabischen. This had been encouraged by the decisive associated with the spread of Islam contact with other languages ​​.

The other theory, which is represented by Orientalists as August Fischer, Karl Vollers, Anton Spitalerstraße and Hans Wehr, based on the testimony of the Arabic orthography, the consonantal inflectional endings -un, -in,- on ( nunation ) and the feminine ending - at not writing, which is the neuarabischen pronunciation. The ancient Arabic heard after this thesis in cities like Mecca, between the 3rd and the 6th century, to be a spoken language. Merely by way of poetic language she had been handed down more respectful.

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