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Classical Arabic : ウィキペディア英語版 | Classical Arabic
Classical Arabic (CA), also known as Quranic Arabic or occasionally Mudari Arabic, is the form of the Arabic language used in literary texts from Umayyad and Abbasid times (7th to 9th centuries). It is based on the medieval dialects of Arab tribes. Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the direct descendant used today throughout the Arab world in writing and in formal speaking, for example, prepared speeches, some radio broadcasts, and non-entertainment content. While the lexis and stylistics of Modern Standard Arabic are different from Classical Arabic, the morphology and syntax have remained basically unchanged (though MSA uses a subset of the syntactic structures available in CA). The vernacular dialects, however, have changed more dramatically. In the Arab world, little distinction is made between CA and MSA, and both are normally called (unicode:''al-fuṣḥá'') () in Arabic, meaning 'the most eloquent (Arabic language)'. Because the Quran is in Classical Arabic, the language is considered by most Muslims to be sacred.〔("Arabic Language," ) Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2009. "Classical Arabic, which has many archaic words, is the sacred language of Islam...". (Archived ) 2009-10-31.〕 ==History==
Classical Arabic has its origins in the central and northern parts of the Arabian Peninsula, and is distinct from the Old South Arabian languages that were spoken in the southern parts of the peninsula, modern day Yemen. Classical Arabic co-existed with the Old North Arabian languages. In the 5th century BC, Herodotus (''Histories'' I,131; III,8) quotes the epithet of a goddess in its preclassical Arabic form as ''Alilat'' (Ἀλιλάτ, i. e.,''ʼal-ʼilat''), which means "the goddess". Apart from this isolated theonym, Arabic is first attested in an inscription in Qaryat al-Fāw (formerly Qaryat Dhat Kahil, near Sulayyil, Saudi Arabia) in the 1st century BC. The oldest inscription in Classical Arabic dates to 328 AD and is known as the , written in the Nabataean alphabet and named after the place where it was found in southern Syria in April 1901. With the spread of Islam, Classical Arabic became a prominent language of scholarship and religious devotion as the language of the Quran (at times even spreading faster than the religion). Its relation to modern dialects is somewhat analogous to the relationship of Vulgar Latin to the Romance languages or of Old Spanish to modern Spanish dialects or of Middle Chinese to modern varieties of Chinese.
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