In the audio lectures “the language and the mind” by Spencer Kelly, I learned how speaking more than one language can enhance cognitive control, which results from the continuous need to block the native language almost every time the speaker wants to use another language. I haven’t found the time yet to read more and […]
Category: Linguistics
After a discussion with a friend about the Arabic loanwords in Persian and Turkish thank words, we noticed that the Arabic loanwords are a noticeable phenomenon in thank words of many languages. So, I did a review of thanking words in many Muslim peoples’ languages to see whether the existence of Arabic loanwords in thank […]
Qaf-Ghayn fronting in Mesopotamian Arabic is one a phonological case of changing Qaf sound to Ghayn sound and vice versa. For example, the word (Qabagh), would be pronounced as (Qabaq) in some of the areas of Mesopotamian Arabic. Mesopotamian Arabic is spoken in south Turkey down to Arab inhabited areas in Syria, most of the […]