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النقاط على الحروف of the Arabic language.
Everything you always wanted to know about the Arabic language (but were afraid to ask). Linguist and Director of the Arabic Program at Cornell University Munther Younes joins us to deconstruct the myths about a language spoken by 300 million people. Who is the “linguistic religious mafia”? How did they manipulate the language to control society? In this #sardeafterdinner, we examine:

The genesis of Arabic: a pure language or the product of many before it?
The Quran: the first book written in Arabic
Will Arabic follow the path of Latin and other dead languages?
Are Arabic dialects evolving into their own languages?
Why we write righttoleft, what ‘el ma7bas’ has to do with prison, and what ‘tala2’ has to do with ‘freedom’
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النقاط على الحروف عن اللغة العربية. كل ما لطالما أردتم معرفته عن اللغة العربية (ولكنكم كنتم تخشون السؤال).
ينضم إلينا اللغوي ومدير برنامج اللغة العربية في جامعة كورنيل منذر يونس لتفكيك أساطير اللغة التي يتكلمها أكثر من ٣٠٠ مليون شخص حول العالم. من هي المافيا الدينية اللغوية؟ وكيف غيرت اللغة لكي تتحكم في المجتمع؟ في هذه الحلقة من #سردة، ننظر في:

جذور اللغة العربية: لغة نقية أو نتاج لغات سبقتها؟
القرآن: أول كتاب في اللغة العربية
هل تتبع اللغة العربية مسار اللغة اللاتينية وغيرها من اللغات "الميتة"؟
هل تتطور اللهجات العربية إلى لغاتها الخاصة؟
لماذا نكتب من اليمين إلى اليسار، وما علاقة "المحبس" ب"السجن" و"الطلاق" بـ "الحرية"؟

Sarde (noun), [Sarde]: A colloquial term used in the Middle East to describe the act of letting go & kicking off a stream of consciousness and a rambling narrative.
The Sarde After Dinner Podcast is a free space based out of the heart of Beirut, Lebanon, where Médéa Azouri & Mouin Jaber discuss a wide range of topics (usually) held behind closed doors in an open and simple way with guests from all walks of life.

سردة (إسم) سَرْدَةْ : مصطلح بالعامية يستخدم في منطقة الشرق الأوسط للدلالة على الاسترخاء وإطلاق سردية.
يشكّل بودكاست سردة بعد العشاء مساحة حرّة من قلب بيروت، لبنان، حيث تناقش ميديا عازوري ومعين جابر عدّة مواضيع (لطالما) تمّت مناقشتها خلف أبواب مغلقة وذلك بطريقة بسيطة ومباشرة مع ضيوف من شتّى المجالات.

TimeStamps:
00:00:00 | Linguistics 101
00:07:37 | The origins of the Arabic language
00:09:36 | Deconstructing myths about the Arabic language
00:13:20 | What are the first documented books in Arabic?
00:15:47 | Who is the religiouslinguistic ‘mafia’?
00:25:39 | The foreign origins of some Arabic words & The Quran
00:29:29 | Foreign words we use today that are actually derived from Arabic
00:31:28 | The Politics of the Arabic Language: Can it evolve or is it dead like Latin?
00:36:25 | Are we unnecessarily complicating the Arabic language?
00:40:13 | Will Arabic unite Arab countries or will Arabs tear up Arabic?
00:45:55 | Mutual intelligibility: The future of the language?
00:54:38 | What is the easiest dialect of Arabic to comprehend?
00:58:18 | Is the Arabic language “in danger”?
01:01:27 | The diversity within the Arabic language: Hamod or Laymoun?
01:04:46 | Marriage = imprisonment & divorce = liberty?
01:09:18 | Are numbers an Arabic invention?
01:16:03 | More myths about the Arabic Language
01:23:19 | Is there Hope for the Arabic language?

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تابعوا سردة عبر يوتيوب، أنغامي، سبوتيفاي، أبل بودكاست وجوجل بودكاست

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