{"id":9126,"date":"2013-06-28T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2013-06-28T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T13:24:18","slug":"what-is-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/what-is-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Arabic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"We have no idea what this says - Centives\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/062813_1157_WhatIsArabi1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist writes that the general perception that Arabic is a single language is somewhat mistaken:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arabic spread across the world 1,400 years ago, and since then it has become increasingly fragmented through regional variations.<\/li>\n<li>It is now more like Latin in medieval Europe where classical Latin was what people wrote and studied, but those who spoke were really speaking French, Spanish, and Portuguese.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly a standard form of Arabic is mostly used in political speeches, the news, and in writing \u2013 but this is not the version of Arabic that is spoken at home.<\/li>\n<li>For example an urban Algerian and an urban Jordanian wouldn&#8217;t be able to speak to each other if they spoke naturally \u2013 but they could communicate by reverting to formal standard Arabic.<\/li>\n<li>This also means that those looking to learn the language have to learn how to read and write one version of it \u2013 and then learn to speak an entirely different version that only a subset of Arabic-speakers will understand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See a demonstration of how different the various strains of Arabic are, why this is a problem of too many navies, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/johnson\/2013\/06\/arabic?fb_ref=activity\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/johnson\/2013\/06\/arabic?fb_ref=activity\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist writes that the general perception that Arabic is a single language is somewhat mistaken: Arabic spread across the world 1,400 years ago, and since then it has become increasingly fragmented through regional variations. It is now more like Latin in medieval Europe where classical Latin was what people wrote and studied, but those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/062813_1157_WhatIsArabi1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9129,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions\/9129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}