Growing up with a bicultural identity, it was difficult for me to get accustomed to different cultures. I was born in the capital city of Ethiopia from an Egyptian mother and an Ethiopian father. Egypt and Ethiopia are located in North East and East Africa respectively. My mother being an Orthodox and my father a Muslim, they shared different religious beliefs and cultures. They used Arabic, Amharic, Tigrigna and French to communicate with me and my sisters at home. At such a very young age I got
Orly Goldwasser makes the claim that the alphabet was invented by Canaanites who were directly influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphics. He suggests that Egyptian hieroglyphics made it possible for the alphabet to be invented. She explains that the Canaanites likely used hieroglyphics as models and taking small sections of the pictograms and using them in a way to represent sounds. She clarifies that he thinks it’s likely that for some of the letters, they used objects from their own world as models
Essay National security once meant a strong dollar, a strong border and the confidence of a people in their government. Now, maintaining our national security depends upon our ability to communicate effectively in other languages and across cultures. A new definition of national security strategy is emerging that must confront issues across the spectrum from dictators to disease, from nation-states to stateless movements, from foreign to domestic battlefields and from outer space to cyberspace
The History of Writing Language existed long before writing, emerging probably simultaneously with sapience, abstract thought and the Genus Homo. In my opinion, the signature event that separated the emergence of palaeohumans from their anthropoid progenitors was not tool-making but a rudimentary oral communication that replaced the hoots and gestures still used by lower primates. The transfer of more complex information, ideas and concepts from one individual to another, or to a group, was the
convey a thought in a new language. Sometimes it is difficult even between dialects in the same base language. The problems that occur to a person while writing in a second language due to language and cultural differences are termed contrastive rhetoric. Connor simply defines “contrastive rhetoric that maintains language and writing as cultural phenomena” (Connor 5). If two cultures vary greatly, then it would make sense that writers who try to cross that cultural and language barrier would have a more
known, even to a person to whom the entire study of language isn't familiar, that the language is the greatest factor on which most of the human activities depend. Without any form of language, any cooperation and communication would be almost, if not totally impossible (World Book Encyclopedia 62). This significance of language is what draws scientists to study origin, differences and connections between languages. Constant change of today's languages is what amazes linguists even more. With the emergings
between motivation and language learning success. Additionally, Engin (2009) insists that learners need to know what types of motivation they have them to achieve greater success. There are two important types of language learning motivation, which are the integrative and instrumental motivation. Gardner (2001) defines integrative motivation as willingness to be a member of the target language’s community (p. 9). Those learners have strong interests in the target language and its culture. On the
This language was used 5000 years ago to 2500 years ago, and it was mostly used as a literary language for English, and an official language by other languages. It is the oldest written language that has ever existed which developed in 3100 BC in southern Mesopotamia, and became well known during the 3rd millennium BC, beginning with the Jemdet Nasr (Uruk III) period from the 31st to 30th centuries BC. The chronology omits the Late Sumerian phase and regard all writings written after 2000 BC as “Post-Sumerian”
Arabic is the official language in many countries, including Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Arabic is also the language of the Koran, so Muslims of all nationalities, such as Indonesians, are familiar with it. There are many Arabic dialects, but there is one version that is taught in schools and used by the media across the Arab world. Arabic is from the Semitic language family, hence its grammar is very different from English. There is a large potential for errors of interference
2500 B.C.E., and by 2000 B.C.E. had evolved into previous Assyrian cuneiform, with several modifications to Sumerian writing system". The Semitic equivalents for several signs became distorted or abbreviated to make new "phonetic" values, as a result of the syllabic nature of the script as refined by the Sumerians was unintuitive to Semitic speakers. Most later diversifications of Sumerian cuneiform preserved a minimum of some aspects of the Sumerian script. Written Akkadian enclosed phonetic
The Word “Igbo,” in the Compendium of the World’s Languages, represents both a race and their Language which remains an inseparable part of Africa, especially West Africa, and should be understood as such in this project. Igbo as language is usually assigned to the Kwa group of Languages of Niger-congo, though certain affinities with the Bantu language and Efik have been pointed out. Central Igbo is of a compromise standard based from Onitsha and Owerri to Calabar. Its codification was recognized
The powerful Hammurabi, greatly known for constructing the first set of written laws, was the sixth king of the Amonte dynasty of ancient Babylon (Hammurabi). The name Hammurabi means “the kinsmen is a healer” which comes from the Amorite language (Hammurabi). He was born in 1805 BC and died around 1750 BC. His power was inherited from his father, Sin-Muballit at a very young age (Hammurabi). Hammurabi was 13 years old when he succeeded the throne. He reigned for 42 years from 1792 BC to 1750 BC
the two languages that belonged to the East Semitic language family and one of the best to rattest Semitic languages. The earliest attest phase of Akkadian is called Old Akkadian, used around 2350 BCE. It was written in cuneiform based on the rebus principle style writing and had been used to write Semitic and non-Sumerian names for centuries. Cuneiform was a very adaptable writing system that was attested in various forms for nearly three millennia. It was created to represent the language of Sumerian
Arabic language had great influence on many languages and Middle English was not an exception. By the 8th century Arabic language drove out Latin as the dominant Language, The Arabic civilization was able to spread and flourish throughout the Spain by the 11th and 12th century. As a matter of fact John the bishop of Seville was translating the Bible into Arabic (Metlitzki 5). These events made some European scholars to show interest in learning Arabic, mostly in the field of mathematics and astronomy
INTRODUCTION Spoken by over 28 million people around the world, Tagalog is the national language and one of two official languages in the Philippines, the other being English. Tagalog, is also referred to as Filipino, it is considered the most important of the many tongues and dialects throughout the Philippines, because it is the most understood and has the most development. It is mainly spoken in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and the surrounding eight provinces around it including the
1. INTRODUCTION. Hasawi is a variety of Arabic whose roots refer to the family of Central Semitic Languages such as Hebrew and Aramaic. The Hasawi dialect is spoken in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia, exactly in Al-Ahsa (Al-Hasaa) province. Therefore, the dialect of Al-Ahsa, or Hasawi (HD), is also known as the Eastern Arabian dialect. In fact, it is considered the dominant dialect in the area although there are other local dialects found in the same area, such as Badawi which is spoken by some
Canada's official languages and there are many other languages spoken freely by diverse racial groups on Canadian soil. Many different religions are also practiced freely and peacefully in Canada. India has a population of 986.6 million people. This country holds 15 % of the world's entire population. Within this country, a variety of cultures and traditions can be found. Christianity, Hinduism as well as the Muslim religion are all practiced freely in India. With 18 official languages and over 900 dialects
manipulation of objects"; memory acts as storage. So, ideas or objects can be retrieved from the memory. Taking this into consideration he came up with the theory of conduit metaphor which he described ideas as objects that can be put into words; language was described by a Reddy as a container, and thus you send ideas in words over a conduit (a channel of communication) to someone else who then extracts the ideas from the words. So, it is implied that understanding of an idea or concept is achieved
The goal of this paper is to portray dysarthria, a language impairment, as a disorder that is "on the margins" of the category of speech disorders. The argumentation will be that since dysarthria shares common underlying neurological causes with motor diseases rather than with other language impairments, it is set apart from other language impairments and evidence for the overlap of the motor modality with the language modality. Language is arguably one if not the most complex functions produced
process may seem easy to them who don't have to deal regularly with it, but after a little exercise anyone could realize the amount of problems rize even just from the translation of a single word. In fact languages are not a list of tags that simply name the categories of the world; each language organizes the world in a different way and the meaning and value of the words varies in relation to their cultural and social system. The procedure we are going to examine here is the equivalence in translation