There are many words that exist in English largely today that descended from Arabic, like Algebra, Algorithms, Alcohol, Banana, Chemistry, Coffee, Jar, Sofa, Sugar, Tariff, and much more. These words transferred mainly through the influence of Andalusia in the Middle Ages, a very advanced Civilization in all fields of Science and Art, which provided a basis of our modern-day Civilization. But the shared roots between Arabic and Western languages are alot older than this:.
Alef Ba Ta = Alphabet
It might be a surprise to learn that the word Alphabet is a combination of the first three letters in the Arabic Alphabet. Well, it doesn't stop there, as the Western Alphabet itself come from an Old Semitic pictorial system, which is what the Arabic language is also built on.
The Alphabet transferred from the Phoenicians (A civilization that existed in today's Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine) to the Greek, and then into the English Language.
The Phoenician Alphabets, in turn, was derived from a Proto-Semitic pictorial system. This is believed to be built on the Egyptian Pictorial writing system found in its earliest form in a Temple in Sinai in Egypt. A place called Sarabeet Al Khadem – A temple dedicated to the identification of the Motherly
Nature: Hathor.
This can be seen in these tables:
Like many things in life, shapes have evolved through simplifications and rotations, until our current Alphabets have developed.
