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Neuware - The author points out both the difficulties and the barriers of the Arab language, thereby differentiating between difficulties, which changes only slightly, and barriers, which would have to be abolished absolutely, in order to give the majority in the Arab peoples access to reading and writing their language. Seller Inventory # 9783899301199
What distinguishes Marzari's work is his ability to explain complicated matters in clear and even entertaining language. Linguists often cut a poor figure here, given their propensity to gallop non-stop through the brushwood of grammar. Not so Marzari. He illustrates the potentials and limits of a language that over 300 million Muslims in the Middle East call their mother tongue, aside from the many others elsewhere in Africa as well as in Asia, who recite Arabic as the language of the Qur'an.
Title: Arabic in Chains : Structural Problems and ...
Publisher: Schiler & Mücke Verlag
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu