The Arabic language is a living being (ePub)

Jerji Zidan explains in this book that the term "language is a living being" that the language is born and grows, then it develops periodically, just as the life cycle that the organism is going through. The author shows us here the history of the Arabic language and its stages of development, the origin of words and derivations from other Semitic languages, and its distinction from the original terms. He also touches on the origins of some words and how they were modified to suit the Arabic tongue and put it. Jerji Zidan was a wide knowledge of the linguistic field theoretically and practically, in theory, Zidane was interested in studies related to the philosophy of language and its history, in addition to his study of the comparative language jurisprudence, as he was aware of the modern linguistic theories in his time, while in practice, he has found Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Latin, English, and French, German, as he was familiar with Italian and Spanish enable him to understand what he reads, and this great familiarity in the linguistic field prompted him to present this book in an elaborate and smooth manner. The writer divides the historical follow -up of the Arabic language in this book to several points: the pre -Islamic era, the Islamic era, the administrative words in the Arab state, the scientific words in the Arab state, the general words in the Arab state, the Christian and Judaization words, and the exotic words of the lexical languages ¿¿such as Turkish and Kurdish, And the modern renaissance in which Arabic was quoted from the Frankish languages.