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Originally posted by Lauren
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Originally posted by farhad
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Originally posted by Lauren
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Originally posted by farhad
out of 500,000 english words, 5000 of words are derived from the root of Arabic
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So 1% ? That's not most. 
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in a study made of Skeats Etymological Dictionary, it was found that Arabic is ranked seventh of the languages that have contributed to the enrichment of English. Only Greek, Latin, French, German, Scandinavian, and the Celtic group of languages have contributed more than Arabic to the tongue of Shakespeare.
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If Arabic contributes to only 1% of our words, then they must be worth 99% of it.
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Although Its History is not asked, It was Arabic which was the predominant langauge in what we learn in History as the "Dark Ages". These were times when the Muslims Had power from the late 6th century to the mid 19th Century. If you wanted to be a scholar you had to learn Arabic. Most of the great scholars of the time were Muslims such as Avicinea and others.