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Hussain Al mutawa
Mrs.Deby Jizi
UNWRT-1102
4 April 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Isaacs, Miriam. "Contentious Partners: Yiddish and Hebrew in Haredi Israel."
International Journal of the Sociology of Language. (1999): 101. Print.
The article talks about Yiddish language, and the people who spoke Yiddish
language. Also, the article talks about the history of Yiddish language, and it explains the
difference between, Hebrew language and Yiddish language. In terms of writing,
speaking, and the usage of both of Hebrew language and Yiddish language.
However, what caught me is, the Yiddish language. I did not have any knowledge
about Yiddish language, but after reading the article. It appeared there is a link between,
the Hebrew language and Yiddish language. Since there is a part in my research that is
going to talk about the Hebrew language, this article is going to help me to write about
the difference between Hebrew and Yiddish.
The source is from University Of North Carolina at Charlotte library, and it is a
peer-reviewed article, which makes it a credible source. Also, the author is Miriam Isaac,
who is a retired professor of Yiddish language. She was professor at University of
Maryland College Park.

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Senz-Badillos, Angel,

and John Elwolde. A history of the Hebrew language.

Cambridge University Press, 1996.

The book is about the history of the Hebrew language. The book describes the
stages that the Hebrew language went through. Also, the book talks about the Hebrew
language being restored, in addition the difference between Modern Hebrew and biblical
Hebrew.
The book is informative. It taught me the evolution of the Hebrew language, and
how did it survive from extinction. Therefore, it is going to benefit me in my research
essay to write about the history of Hebrew language.
In addition, the author who wrote the book is, Angel Badillos, who was professor
of the history of the Hebrew language at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. 2
years ago professor Angel Badillos passed away.

Myths and Facts about the Arabic Language. By Leslie McLoughlin. Perf. Leslie
McLoughlin. Www.Youtube.com. LearnOasis, 4 May 2011. Web.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flcVUaIbNEU>.
The video is about Arabic language. It states couple of facts about Arabic
language, and couple of statistics. The video does address a couple of misconceptions
about the Arabic language, and the video explains a few of the Arabic grammar.
The video has some interesting facts. For example, in Arabic language you can
call the camel with four hundred different names. Also, there are 325 million Arabic

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native speakers in the world. Therefore, the video is going assist me, when I write about
the Arabic language. Especially when it comes to grammar, because the video explains it
clearly.
Leslie McLoughlin, who wrote, and presented the video is a professor at the
University Of Exeter in England. The professor has experience in Arab and Islamic
studies.
Abu-Rabia, Salim. "The role of vowels in reading Semitic scripts: Data from
Arabic and Hebrew." Reading and Writing 14.1-2 (2001): 39-59.
This article is about the similarities and differences, between Arabic language and
Hebrew language. In terms of the verbs, grammar, and pronunciation. Also, the article
mentions the similarity of an Arabic person reading, and a Hebrew person reading.
From reading the article, I have learned a few aspects about Hebrew language.
Although, both Arabic and Hebrew are written from right to left, there is still some
difference. For example, Hebrew language has couple of different vowels, different
writing rules.
.Also, Salim Abu Rabia, who is the author, has PhD from University of Toronto in
education. Besides, Salim Abu Rabia has a bachelor degree from Ben Gurion University
of the Negev, Israel in Education and Hebrew Literature.

Versteegh, Kees. The Arabic language. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

The book talks about the journey of Arabs when they colonized Spain, and from
that colonization, a couple of Latin languages have been influenced by Arabic language.
Besides, the book explains how the Arabic language has influenced the Spanish language.

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The book is uses simple words, which makes it not complicated to understand.

Therefore, I learned how Arabic language influenced other languages. By translating

some of the foreign languages to Arabic language, the Arabs had more knowledge at that
time than the European. Therefore, from this information I could add to my research how
did the Arabic language influence foreign languages.
Also, the year that the book was published, which was in 2014, and that makes
more reliable. Besides, Kees Versteegh was a professor at Radboud University Nijmegen
in Netherlands. He was a professor of slamic studies and the Arabic language.