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Amharic (አማርኛ)
Amharic (አማርኛ), also called Amarinya, is a Semitic language of Ethiopia with over 30 million native speakers. It is the working language of the Ethiopian federal government.
Arabic
Arabic (العربية), a Middle Eastern and North African language, is one of six official UN languages (since 1973) and is defined by diglossia: the uniform Modern Standard Arabic of writing and formal use versus regional spoken dialects with varying mutual intelligibility.
Arabic grammar
Arabic grammar (naḥw and ṣarf) covers morphology and syntax of Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic (al-fuṣḥā), and dialects: root-and-pattern derivation, iʿrāb case endings, iḍāfa, particles, diglossia, and the grammatical tradition from Sībawayhi's al-Kitāb onward.
Aramaic (ܐܪܡܝܐ)
Aramaic (ܐܪܡܝܐ) is a Northwest Semitic language related to Hebrew and Arabic, first attested in the ninth century BCE, adopted as the Achaemenid empire's official language, and still spoken today.
Celestino Schiaparelli
Celestino Schiaparelli was an Italian orientalist and Arabist who taught at the University of Rome and directed the Scuola Orientale. He also served as the Lincei Library librarian.
Classical Arabic
Classical Arabic (al-fuṣḥā al-kilāsīkiyya, also called al-ʿarabiyya al-fuṣḥā) is the archaic codified variety of Arabic of the Quran and early poetry, standardized by ninth-century grammarians, the High variety in Arabic diglossia, and the ancestor of Modern Standard Arabic.
Ibn Sari Zajjaj
Ibn Sari Zajjaj (إبراهيم بن السري بن سهل، أبو إسحاق الزجاج), fully Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Zajjaj, was an Abbasid Arabic grammarian of Baghdad, 855–923, known for Ma'ani al-Qur'an.
Ibn Sarraj Nahwi
Ibn Sarraj Nahwi, also known as Ibn al-Sarrāj al-Naḥwī (ابن السراج النحوي), was a grammarian of Abbasid Baghdad who died in 928 or 929 and wrote Kitāb al-Uṣūl fī al-naḥw.
Ibn Sida Mursi
Ibn Sida Mursi (ابن سيده), fully Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ismail ibn Sida, was a blind Andalusi philologist of Murcia who compiled two of the largest classical Arabic dictionaries.
Modern Hebrew (עברית חדשה)
Modern Hebrew, also known as Israeli Hebrew, is the Hebrew language as spoken today, revived from liturgical use in the late 1800s and now the everyday language of Israel.
Modern Hebrew phonology
Modern Hebrew phonology: the sound system of revived spoken Hebrew, with five vowels, merged emphatics and gutturals, final stress cued by duration, and a conservative abjad orthography.
Phoenician language
Phoenician is a Canaanite Semitic language spoken on the Lebanese coast and in western Mediterranean colonies, related closely to Hebrew and written in a 22-letter alphabet.
Solehah Yaacob
Solehah Yaacob (صالحة يعقوب), Malaysian professor of the philosophy of Arabic grammar at IIUM, Pasir Mas, Kelantan native; known for Arabic linguistics books and for controversial Malay-history claims that led to her 2026 dismissal.
Standard Arabic phonology
Standard Arabic phonology describes the sound system of Modern Standard Arabic: 28 consonants including four emphatics, six vowels, CV-based syllables, right-edge trochaic stress, and dialect-influenced realizations of ḍād and ǧīm.
Syriac language
Syriac (ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, Leššānā Suryāyā), also Classical Syriac or Edessan Aramaic, is an Aramaic dialect from Edessa, the largest Aramaic literature, and liturgical language of Syriac churches.