>>46
>Latin + Nonsense
What? Arabic is nothing like Latin at all.
It has genders, which of course could be sucky, but the genders themselves can be thought of as purely symbolic in most cases. They often separate concepts. The rest of the language is pretty fucking logical.
See, Arabic is composed of a root system with primarily triconsonantal roots (say k-t-b or كتب for things pertaining to reading). From that you get for instance كِتَابْ (kitaab), or book; كَاتِبْ (kaatib), or writer; كَتَيَ (kataba), or "he wrote". You can expand on this like a fucking maniac, using very logical rules for prefixes, suffixes, interfixes, root mutations, vowel mutations - you name it - to build up words that would take a whole sentence to express in English. Taken to the extreme, you can get things like كَتَبْتِيهُولْهُمْ (katabtiihuulhum), meaning "you, a single female, wrote it to them". This is all very dynamic too, and you can combinate and break things up in a lot of different ways, giving such nuance to the language that English speakers can only dream of.
Other logical things:
- Pronounced as written. As far as I know there is only one single exception to this in the entire language (disregarding very recent loanwords, of course), and that's الله, Allah, where the L-sound is pharyngealised.
- Vowels come in long and short forms, and the short ones aren't written unless it's necessary to remove ambiguity.
- Very, very few exceptions. There are some different declension/inflection rules between masculine/feminine words, and for roots containing semivowels, but otherwise the language is very regular compared to most others.
So yes, Arabic is logical as fuck.