ARABIC

[s. 66] : allied to the family. The Arabic language is closely Hebrew and Syriac, of the Sernitic This appears in Bible translation, where the Hebrew may be turned into good clasDifficult sical Arabic with comparative ease. and ambiguous pa ages can be translated word for word, often by the same word that is used in the Hebrew, leaving the ambiguity the same in the translation as in the original. It is rich has an abundant and valuable refined; literature, and is spoken by 50,000,000, and used in worship (generally without knowledge) and by more than 200,000,000 of the inhabitants of the globe. 66