Classical Arabic
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Classical Arabic is the standardized, literary form of the Arabic language used in the Quran and early Islamic literature, serving as the historical foundation for Modern Standard Arabic.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical language stage
→
literary language → standardized language → variety of Arabic → |
| basisFor |
Modern Standard Arabic
→
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| codifiedBy |
Basra school of grammar
→
Kufa school of grammar → |
| distinguishedFrom |
Modern Standard Arabic
→
colloquial Arabic dialects → |
| hasAlternativeName |
Quranic Arabic
→
al-ʿArabiyya al-Fuṣḥā → |
| hasInfluentialGrammarian |
Sibawayh
→
|
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
broken plurals
→
case inflection → grammatical gender → mood inflection → root-and-pattern morphology → triconsonantal roots → |
| hasNormativeSource |
language of pre-Islamic poetry
→
language of the Quran → |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
emphatic consonants
→
pharyngeal consonants → short and long vowels → |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
agreement in person number and gender
→
subject–verb–object word order → verb–subject–object word order → |
| influences |
Arabic literary tradition
→
contemporary Islamic religious discourse → |
| languageBranch |
Semitic languages
→
|
| languageFamily |
Afroasiatic languages
→
|
| languageSubbranch |
Central Semitic languages
→
|
| religiousStatus |
liturgical language of Islam
→
|
| scriptDirection |
right-to-left
→
|
| standardizedIn |
early Abbasid period
→
|
| subclassOf |
Arabic language
→
|
| timePeriod |
10th century CE
→
7th century CE → 8th century CE → 9th century CE → early Islamic period → |
| usedBy |
Muslim scholars
→
classical Arab poets → |
| usedFor |
legal texts
→
philosophical texts in medieval Islam → religious texts → scientific texts in medieval Islam → |
| usedIn |
Hadith literature
→
Quran → classical Arabic poetry → classical Islamic scholarship → early Islamic literature → |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
→
|