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AP World History Unit 3 Day 22 111312.notebook November 13, 2013
LANGUAGE NOTES
AP World History Unit 3 Day 22 111312.notebook November 13, 2013
AP World History Unit 3 Day 22 111312.notebook November 13, 2013
Three Examples of Language DiffusionBantu LanguagesTurkic LanguagesArabic
AP World History Unit 3 Day 22 111312.notebook November 13, 2013
Swahili Some Swahili vocabulary is derived from Arabic through more than twelve centuries of contact with Arabicspeaking inhabitants of the coast of Zanj.
First spread by the Arab Traders and by explorers, like Ibn Battuta
Christian missionaries learned Swahili as the language of communication to spread the Gospel in Eastern Africa. So, the missionaries also helped to spread the language.
The language was still understood in the southern ports of the Red Sea and along the coasts of southern Arabia and the Persian Gulf in the twentieth century
The Turkic languages spoken in Azeri, the Türkmen, the Tartar, the Uzbek, the Baskurti, the Nogay, the Kyrgyz, the Kazakh, the Yakuti
Turkish belongs to the Altaic branch of the UralAltaic family of languages, and thus is closely related to Mongolian, ManchuTungus, Korean, and perhaps Japanese. Some scholars have maintained that these resemblances are not fundamental, but rather the result of borrowings, however comparative Altaistic studies in recent years demonstrate that the languages we have listed all go back to a common UrAltaic.
AP World History Unit 3 Day 22 111312.notebook November 13, 2013
Country Population Notes Algeria 34,895,000 Bahrain 807,000 Chad 10,329,208 Coofficial language, along with French Comoros 691,000 Coofficial language, along with French and Comorian Djibouti 864,000 Coofficial language, along with French Egypt 79,089,650 Eritrea 5,224,000 Coofficial language, along with English and Tigrinya Iraq 31,234,000 Coofficial language, along with Kurdish Israel 7,653,600 Coofficial language, along with Hebrew Jordan 6,407,085 Kuwait 3,566,437 Lebanon 4,224,000 Libya 6,420,000 Mauritania 3,291,000 Morocco 32,200,000 Coofficial language, along with Berber Oman 2,845,000 Palestine 4,260,636 Qatar 1,696,563 Saudi Arabia 25,731,776 Somalia 9,359,000 Coofficial language, along with Somali Sudan 43,939,598 Coofficial language, along with English Syria 22,505,000 Tunisia 10,432,500 United Arab Emirates 4,975,593 Yemen 23,580,000
Places where the official language is Arabic
