Digital Resource Project TESL 4204 Gutierrez Sydney Hillman ARABIC Digital Resource Project TESL 4204 Gutierrez Sydney Hillman

Arabic is the official language in: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Palestine, and Western Sahara.1

Various ethno-racial and religious groups within the countries where Arabic is spoken: Most Arabs are Muslims. The majority of Muslim Arabs follow Sunni Islam while the others follow Shia Islam.3,4 “The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagreement over the choice of Muhammad's successor and subsequently acquired broader political significance, as well as theological and juridical dimensions.”5

Most Arabs are Muslim although several others practice other religions such as Christianity, Druze, or Baha’i.3,4

…that’s 4.23% of the world’s population!6 267 MILLION people in the world speak Arabic as their primary language…

Arabic Dialects: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the official Arabic language. It can be written and spoken, and there is no difference between the written and the spoken form. In its written form, Modern Standard Arabic is the language of literature and the media. Levantine Arabic is said to be most similar to MSA.7

The Arabic Alphabet:

How Arabic is similar to English: How Arabic is different from English: Arabic has 28 consonants (English 24) and 8 vowels/diphthongs (English 22). Short vowels are unimportant in Arabic and do not appear in writing. Texts are read from right to left. There is no “uppercase” “lowercase” in Arabic and there aren’t as many punctuation rules as in English.8

Grammar Rules: Arabic follows similar rules than those of Spanish because the article changes based on who it is describing. In contrast to the Spanish language, the article will also change based on who you are talking to.

Brigit Yaghi - Alby W Omry / بريجيت ياغي - قلبي و عمري https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hb2Uc5MQnA

Where can you hear Arabic being spoken in Charlotte? GROCERY STORES: Halal is Arabic for permissible. Halal food is that which adheres to Islamic law, as defined in the Qur’an. The Islamic form of slaughtering animals or poultry, dhabiha, involves killing through a cut to the jugular vein, carotid artery and windpipe.9

A few words in Arabic: http://arabicquick.com/greetings-introductions/ Hello Goodbye http://arabicquick.com/essential-arabic-basics/ Yes No Please Thank you

References http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/countries_by_languages.htm http://www.cyborlink.com/besite/uae.htm Ori Stendel. The Arabs in Palestine. Sussex Academic Press. p. 45. ISBN 1898723249. Retrieved March 4, 2014. Mohammad Hassan Khalil. Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation, and the Fate of Others. Oxford University Press. p. 297. Retrieved March 1, 2014. Tayeb El-Hibri, Maysam J. al Faruqi (2004). "Sunni Islam". In Philip Mattar. The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (Second ed.). MacMillan Reference USA. https://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size http://www.myeasyarabic.com/site/what_is_modern_standard_arabic.htm http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/langdiff/arabic.htm http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27324224