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A little jealous of Arabic speakers for that, ngl (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ItDoBeHowItDoBe@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, bro. Most Arabic speakers could read the quran because pronunciation is explicitly directed in the modern copies, but hardly anybody understands it. You have to read the tafsirs, hadith, and writings of scholars if you want to understand anything according to most every Muslim I know.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

That would make sense. It's one of those "languages" that really might be more of a language family, like "Chinese".