Asian languages there is a very important member of the not yet mentioned, this is the so-called “Asia - non-languages”, traditionally called “Semites - Hamitic languages”, referred to as “flash - with language,”｡ that name check Since the biblical Noah’s two sons, one called Shem, a man named Ham｡ Asia - non-language found in North Africa, East and North Africa, Near East, Middle East and Central Asia, a vast region, including more than 200 million people and dozens of countries ｡
However, Asia - non-verbal is important, because there is not limited to,｡ not only the world’s most ancient civilizations, the birthplace of origin where the phonetic system, but also in the world today most of the major characters of the originator｡
Asia - non-languages Arabic population accounted for nearly three-quarters of the more important｡ other languages are: Israel, Hebrew, Mandarin, Somali, West Africa / Nigeria’s primary language Hausa, as well as North Africa a number of other languages｡
Arabic is the national language of nearly 20 countries, while the number of Muslims around the world to understand a few words in Arabic, which makes it in 1974, became the sixth working languages of the United Nations｡ its alphabet is used by many other languages ｡ it used the language of the text retains a number of ancient phonetic features: right-to-left writing, as well as the letter is not only consonant vowel｡ There is also a phenomenon is a letter in the word of the different positions, also writing ｡ If you are not the same X-window computer, you can try to set the font editor in Arabic letters, and then to see if the word with a letter placed in the middle and on the ending, the shape the same way as you do not｡ understand the Arabic language would be visible｡
A total of 28 Arabic letters, have expressed consonants｡ because they are written in cursive style with the book, it seems a string, as if do not see an independent vowel letters｡ it? You may also be noted that In these winding a continuous curve from top to bottom there are a number of small dots and short of something, that is vowels!
Unfortunately, they are Arabs in writing a general text, is omitted the vowels, and only at the primary school textbooks and reading materials to foreigners and only on the vowel｡ Note, for example, write “solid” word , they would probably write “dls” (do not forget to write from right to left), then you is very difficult to guess this is what the word of the … …
Arabic is characterized by the ancient and near, the evolution of the Middle East, the origin of words, linked｡ Ancient Egypt and the “Mesopotamia” is the world’s text first appeared, and is the birthplace of phonetic alphabet｡
About ago, the Egyptian language and writing appeared in the paper straw｡ Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 BC unity, after the reunification of Egypt, written records began to test (which is over China began as early as the 1000’s written seven hundred years)｡ The earliest text is graphic text, and later becoming some of the text intended to refer to syllabic signs and symbols, then, there has been a sound one symbol of the alphabet, a total of 24｡ consonants are not marked all the letters only standard vowel｡ various symbols phrase, a total of more than 600 phrases｡ through these developments, the ancient Egyptian writing is the use of letters, notes and phrases consisting of a composite text｡ into the eighth Dynasty (about 2200 BC ) period there is a cursive scripts, to the Dynasty (2000-1700 years BC), the cursive scripts have been widely popular, only the formal style and engraved it with the elephant body｡
The so-called papyrus is a plant produced in Lower Egypt, the length of its stem profile control section, the mutually-aligned connected into pieces, and then pressed flat and dried into paper｡ this papyrus in ancient Mediterranean region, which later became a common paper, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and the subsequent written｡ have to use it (although, this also can not be considered “official paper” because the “official paper” must wait until three thousand years after the Chinese invented｡
As early as ago almost the same time with the Egyptians living in the Euphrates and Tigris (the Greeks called Mesopotamia - Mesopotamia, which means “a place between two rivers”), the Sumerian also have their own text｡ their first language is graphic symbol, a symbol after the development of a sense｡ phonetic symbols and symbols to denote meaning, together with the composition of the phrase｡ Ever since the phonetic symbols that sense, character Ziru increasing tendency to reduce the fan, to the About ago, the character was reduced to 600 the following, of which about 100 to indicate syllable symbols, but there is no single consonant symbols｡ says this text, with a sharp-edged Reed of bone carved in the clay bar, etc. , the drying or drying after they became long-term preservation of the instrument, there are some saved to now, Interpretation of the success of｡ Reed was carved strokes, from thick and deep draw close draw thin and shallow, shaped like a wedge, so the name “cuneiform”｡
Cuneiform became common in the Near East countries in diplomatic language, until the advanced Phoenician alphabetic writing the “successor” Aramaic popularity gradually began to be abandoned after｡ Aramaic in the Near East countries access to the seventh century, when the Arab Islamic culture and a sophisticated a tremendous amount in Arabic, until today｡
Leo Peng