Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Note for teachers of American English
- List of phonetic symbols
- Acknowledgements
- Dutch speakers
- Speakers of Scandinavian languages
- German speakers
- French speakers
- Italian speakers
- Speakers of Spanish and Catalan
- Portuguese speakers
- Greek speakers
- Russian speakers
- Polish speakers
- Farsi speakers
- Arabic speakers
- Turkish speakers
- Speakers of South Asian languages
- Speakers of Dravidian languages
- Speakers of West African languages
- Swahili speakers
- Malay/Indonesian speakers
- Japanese speakers
- Chinese speakers
- Korean speakers
- Thai speakers
- The cassette and CD
Arabic speakers
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Note for teachers of American English
- List of phonetic symbols
- Acknowledgements
- Dutch speakers
- Speakers of Scandinavian languages
- German speakers
- French speakers
- Italian speakers
- Speakers of Spanish and Catalan
- Portuguese speakers
- Greek speakers
- Russian speakers
- Polish speakers
- Farsi speakers
- Arabic speakers
- Turkish speakers
- Speakers of South Asian languages
- Speakers of Dravidian languages
- Speakers of West African languages
- Swahili speakers
- Malay/Indonesian speakers
- Japanese speakers
- Chinese speakers
- Korean speakers
- Thai speakers
- The cassette and CD
Summary
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ALGERIA, BAHRAIN, EGYPT, IRAQ, JORDAN, KUWAIT, LEBANON, LIBYA, MOROCCO, OMAN, PALESTINE, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, SUDAN, SYRIA, TUNISIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, YEMEN REPUBLIC.
Arabic is a second major language in Chad, Israel, Mauritania, Djibouti, Bangladesh; also in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Chechnya.
In addition, Arabic being the language of the Koran, the holy word of Islam, all Muslims of whatever nationality are to some extent familiar with Arabic, can recite extensively in it, and are therefore influenced by it in their ideas of how language works. Islam has a significant following in Senegal, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Guinea, Somali Republic, Kenya, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, northern China, Mongolia and Turkey, approximately 400,000,000 people in all, and increasing.
Introduction
Arabic is a Semitic language, having a grammatical system similar to Assyrian, Aramaic, Hebrew and Ethiopian. There is a universal ‘pan-Arabic’ language, which is taught in schools, used by the mass media in all Arab countries, and for all communications of an official nature. Within each country, often in quite small areas, a wide variety of colloquial dialects have developed, differing one from another not only in pronunciation, but also in common lexical items and, to some extent, in structure. The differences from country to country are more marked than, say, differences between UK, US and Australian English.
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- Learner EnglishA Teacher's Guide to Interference and Other Problems, pp. 195 - 213Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001
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