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[pg 10]
The vast majority of meanings in Arabic come from vowels, patterns and
grammatical structure. [pg 10-11]
Ibn Khaldun tells us that Arabic has a core and a central theme. It is the most
sophisticated system on the planet for conveyance of meaning precisely because
the majority of meanings do not come from the words. They come from the vowels.
[pg 11]
Subject Verb Object (SVO) is the format they use in English. The subject is at the
very front, verb in the middle and object at the end. If you change the word order it
alters the meaning. What was originally the object now becomes the subject, what
was originally the subject becomes the object. It limits you to only one way of
expressing the meaning. [pg 12]
Morphology is the area of classical Arabic that deals with verbs and how
consonants are grouped together and vowelled using particular patterns (which
youll see shortly). The consonants are given vowels; the vowels give you the tense
and the voice. They reflect the gender, plurality and the person of the one doing the
verb (the subject) so you know whether the subject of the verb is a male or female
and you are able to properly connect the verb with the pronoun.
Grammar deals with sentence structure and how to distinguish between the roles
that the nouns play within the sentence. I.e. which noun is the one doing the verb
and which noun is the one upon whom the verb is being done.
The third science is Rhetoric. It is the most advanced area of Arabic and teaches
you how to craft impactful and influential speech. So once youve assessed the
mind-set, mental capacity, the desires, frustrations and pains of the audience, you
can speak accordingly. [pg 15]
The system that Ibn Khaldun described as the most advanced, sophisticated and
superior system on the planet for conveying meaning, has a word level and
sentence level. [pg 19]
Sarf is the science of classical Arabic that focuses on patterns and endings. [pg 23]
At this point in the mapping, we end up with 3 things: words, sentences and
phrases. This is the subject matter of grammar. The reason I say that is because
when people speak, they speak in sentences, which are made up of words and
phrases. If you know everything there is to know about the word, the sentence and
the phrase then that is all of grammar. [pg 28]
In Arabic there are three parts of speech. They are: ??? (ism), ????? (fil) and ??? ??
(harf). [pg 29]