Treasures of Arabic Language |
Overall Structure |
I'm not a linguistician. But I'm trying to discover treasures of the Arabic Language because I just feel that there are lots of treasures in my native language - The Arabic Language.
This is an open discussion. Any additions are welcomed. I will be pleased to find many of my friends interested in such topic. In terms of computer terminology, The Arabic Language is well structured language. But, it is required a lot of hard work from both linguists and software specialists to discover this well structure and prove it. Languages are used to send messages that convey a useful meaning. Robust structure of the language is a requirement for understanding the messages transferred by the language.
The Arabic Language - as any other language - is composed of letters. The alphabet of the language as seen below consists of 29 symbols.
The aggregation of letters is the word. Words are classified into three classes. The first two classes are verbs and nouns, which have independent meaning. Verbs express actions. Nouns identify objects. The third class expresses status. It is a collection of letters that have no independent meaning but they have to be followed by verbs or nouns to have meaning. Preposition is an example to the third class.
The aggregation of words is the phrase. That is, one word or more constitute a phrase. Generally phrases express a partial meaning. The phrase may express a complete meaning to form a sentence.
The collection of phrases is the sentence. One phrase or more constitute a sentence. The sentence may be partitioned into segments in case of complex sentences. Segments of a complex sentence are simple sentences that have a complete independent meaning.