Ancient Semitic VIII: Arabic

In the eighth video of my new series I am talking about Arabic. There are some detailed explanations on how to read and pronounce Classical Arabic, and text samples include Old Hejazi Arabic, Classical Arabic, Jewish Middle Arabic and Christian Middle Arabic written in Coptic. Contents: 00:03:30 Classification, Sources 00:13:50 Features (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax) 00:33:05 The Arabic Script 00:38:45 Old Hejazi Arabic 00:55:50 The Kitab Sibawayh 01:06:35 How to Read and Pronounce Classical Arabic - Letters and Vowel Signs 01:35:25 How to Read and Pronounce Classical Arabic - Other Rules according to Sibawayh 01:53:10 Sample Text in Old Hejazi Arabic 01:59:50 Sample Text in Classical Arabic Prose 02:08:25 Sample Text in Classical Arabic Poetry 02:14:10 Sample Text in Jewish Middle Arabic 02:23:05 Sample Text in Christian Middle Arabic Please be aware that I do not want to waste my time on trolls, ideologists, racists etc. and I will delete any comment and ban any user that I find annoying. Feel free to follow me on Instagram: #linguistics #semiticlanguages #semiticlinguistics #semitic #arabic #hebrew #aramaic #akkadian #babylonian #ugaritic #geez #protosemitic #egyptian #egyptianlanguage #egyptianlinguistics #coptic #afroasiatic #afroasiaticlanguages #afroasiaticlinguistics #hamitosemitic