What others said about Arabic Read in the original
“Mohammedanism carried not only the Koran, but also the once-isolated language of southern Arabia to vast regions of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania, where it influenced, more or less deeply, the native tongues; such languages as Persian, Hindustani, Turkish, Malay, Hausa are replete with Arabic words. […] Arabic, the tongue of medieval culture, gives us astronomical terms like "zenith" and "nadir," mathematical words like "algebra" and "cipher," chemical expressions like "alcohol," "alkali," "alchemy" and "chemistry" itself.”
In Arabic
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The version in circulation
أشاد ماريو بِلْ… بأنّ العربيّة هي اللغة العالميّة في حضارات العصور الوسطى… وقد أورد قاموس Littre قوائمَ بما اقتبسته هذه اللغات من مفرداتٍ عربيّة… ومجموعها ٢٧ لغة.
How it differs from the original: The circulated version merges several passages; Littré and the "27 languages" are not in Pei's book.
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