do you all know that the Arabic language was the root of all languages?

Question

i was reading an article about the arabic language which has many similar words of the english language and In common with other European languages, many English words are derived from Arabic, often through other European languages, especially Spanish and Italian, among them every-day vocabulary like "sugar" (sukkar), "cotton" (quṭn) or "magazine" (maḫāzin). More recognizable are words like "algebra", "alcohol" and "zenith" (see list of English words of Arabic origin).

Answer 1

There is no common root for all languages. And while the English language has many words borrowed from Arabic, it also has words from many other languages as well. Arabic is a Semitic Language, however, while English is an Indo-Aryan language, which, like all others of its kind arises from Sanskrit, a language thousands of years older than Arabic.

Answer 2

The reason that words such as Alcohol and Zenith are used in both languages is because chemistry was concept first started by Muslims. What destroys the idea that it is the root is the fact that it uses a totally different alphabet than English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

Answer 3

You are overstating your case.

Arabic is a root language to many others, or at least Arabic shares linguistic roots to many others. Linguists also theorize that there is a common root language to all existing human languages.

That root language, whatever it may have been, is certainly not still in daily usage by anyone today. Language is too maleable for it to remain unchanged for so long. Only languages that have passed out of active use remain static (Latin, for example).

The changes that occur over centuries amount to the creation of new languages. Think of 13th century English. Ever read Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales' in their original form. It requires a translation to get all the details right. Spelling, grammer and word definitions have changed too much over the intervening years.

This would be true of any language.

Answer 4

LET ME ANSWER THIS QUESTION AS IM A ARABIST AND I HAVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: * Hebrew is older than Arabic. * However it's main to notice that as Hebrew is a relatively historic language HEBREW IS AN EXTINCT language. Hebrew has been lifeless for hundreds of years. What is now spoken in Israel is NOT honestly Hebrew it's an Esperanto like European - Yiddish - Biblical Hebrew Pidgin. It is a man-made language built by way of a few professors. It can by no means be like truly Hebrew which was once changed by way of Aramaic which was once then changed by way of Arabic. * Biblical Hebrew is the one Hebrew that survives however cant be spoken considering that the language is extinct * So Arabic is the oldest non extinct non artificially built or revived language. Thank you.

Answer 5

Actually, many languages can be traced back to an earlier, Indo-European language. Many of our words are Arabic because we learned from them--they were they ones who were the best versed in mathematics and astronomy, which is how we'd get algebra and zenith, they were traders, and we got sugar and cotton through them, so we just used an approximation of their words for them. They had a profound influence on us, but that doesn't mean our language originated from theirs.

Answer 6

Arabic, like Chinese (both variants) and Sanskrit , is a modern variant of the early traders' and mendicants' tongue. By their nature , they unselfishly shared whatever they gathered during their endless travels in pursuit of wealth or the TRUTH.If a catalogue of Sanskrit words in the Anglo Saxon group or Latin Group of Languages is made the same opinion which is derived for Arabic can be made for Sanskrit also. To be precise it is not even the Sanskrit , but its mother the PRAKRIT which deserves this credit of reaching a broad spectrum of universal words to several other languages. The Root language of modern Tamil, the CHEM-TAMIL or RED TAMIL ( an allusion to its status as a crude language) equally well deserves such a status as mother of many oldest languages. We should concentrate on the unifying aspects of languages rather than voting for mother status for this or that language. cs r

Answer 7

Arabic is NOT the root of all languages. That is absurd. So what if there are English words based on Arabic words? That proves nothing. There are many Arabic words based on English words such as "telephone." Does that mean that English is the root of all languages?

Answer 8

No, there probably was never a "root of all language". Most European and South Asian languages derive from "proto Indo-European, spoken thousands of years ago.

Seveal English words DO derive from Arabic, just as you stated....but it is certainl;y not the root of all languages. I evolved just like all other Afro-Asiatic languages (to which Hebrew also belongs).

Answer 9

Arabic is a source for many languages.
Arabic numerals are the root of our current mathematics and replaced roman numerals (which did not work nearly as well since roman numerals have no symbol to denote zero).

Lots of stories in the Western culture have roots in Arabian Knights stories.

Medicine, astronomy and literature also have huge Arabic basis.

Some people try to deny contributions of Mideasterners because of current situation in Mideast. Too bad. There is much to learn.

Answer 10

no,you r wrong thr.d origin of all lang. is sanskrit. it existed in india centuries BC.also,it language went fr thr to wht was later greece n rome. thr it's modified into modern alphabet n known as latin.then,as we know english is derived fr latin,french,old english,norse,sanskrit.words which end w. a sounds r sanskrit leftover in english. d orgin of certain words r arabic,only v few.as such e.g. u gave.