How similar are Arabic and Spanish? Arabic Influence on Spanish

What's up guys? Yadya recommended this video and I learned Egyptian Arabic from Mohamed, who happens to have a YouTube channel about learning Arabic. Check out the link in the description below and today I'm recording from my friend's little house in northern Michigan where he lives. off the grid, that's great, today we're going to look at the question of whether Spanish and Arabic are

similar

in any way, so the first thing I'm going to do is listen to some Arabic and give you my opinion as a Spanish speaker. If I understand something then we are going to take a quick look at the history of the

influence

of Arabic in Spanish and finally we are going to see some words in Spanish of Arabic origin and today guys it is very important that you follow everything until the end of this video because I am going to present a project that I started with some of my subscribers to highlight how diverse and great our communities are, so don't forget to stay until the end to see this amazing thing and yeah.

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I'm currently using some solar energy to turn on some lights so you guys can see me, so I'm going to Listen to Arabic, actually Egyptian Arabic, on my phone and see how much I can understand. Here we go and then I can tell you right away that I didn't understand a word of what Youssef was saying. He was very defiant. So. It's not immediately obvious that Spanish is closely related to Arabic, like I don't understand anything, but I really thought it was a very interesting and fluent language, uh, although I want to learn all languages, but it has flaws despite being Arabic.

It sounded so different from Spanish. I mean, I didn't understand anything. It's well known that there are more than 4,000 words in Spanish of Arabic origin and they have

influence

d our names. I mean, my name is Diego Alonso. It's that Arabic. Alonso has influenced the way. Look, I want. I mean, I think it could happen to any Arabic speaker from any Middle Eastern country and it has also influenced our culture a lot and this is not surprising because of the history, I mean when the Spanish language was developing in the 10th century in most of Spain. It was occupied by Adam and this brings us to the conversation about the history of the influence of Arabic and Spanish.

The people who occupied Spain were mostly of Arab and Berber descent and had a great impact on the culture They occupied Spain in different parts of Spain for almost a thousand years, so as I said before, the Spanish language was developing at the time. when it was invaded by the Arabs and that means that there were many Romance languages ​​in the Iberian Peninsula, there was ancient Portuguese and there were many others that were quite not. For example, Andalusian Romance which is also known as Asmos Arabic did not survive and this is the Romance language that had the most contact with Arabic and I found this video on YouTube that claims to have some of the most Arabic languages ​​spoken by some of the Andalusians. romance, so I'm going to listen to it and I'll include the link below so you can watch the full video on most of the Arabic, but let's listen to a little bit of mosabi and see if I understand a little bit more here.

Wow, I mean, I can tell you that I understood some of the words, um, I didn't understand everything, to me it sounded a lot like Italian mixed with a little bit of European Spanish, so maybe as a person who lived in Spain and moved to Argentina and I've stayed there for a long time and he talks a little strange. I could see some Arabic. They said slime. They said things that sounded Arabic to me. That's very good. Very good. OMG I just saw it in the comments. YouTube video that is even more understandable than Chilean Spanish poor Chileans oh my god I know we have given Chileans a lot of hell on this channel we love Chileans but what are they saying I'm sorry I really love chili I really love chili.

I can't wait to come back, as I said, a thousand years later the Spanish Christian troops finally eliminated and got rid of all the Muslim invaders occupying southern Spain, but of course their status of influence is important nonetheless. Point out that this invasion was not the only way Arabic influenced Spanish Arabic because it is a scientific language, mathematics and traits also influence Latin and then Latin influences Spanish, English and other Romance languages, Of course, I'm not saying that English is a Romance language. but we know that English was strongly influenced by Latin. It's really cool to learn the history of languages, but let's move on to the next part where we'll look at some words that come from Arabic in Spanish.

Let's look at an example. We're not going to waste all four thousand words, but we'll just list a few and hear how it sounds in Arabic. I would say my personal favorite is o hala because it's something I use all the time and I didn't know until I came to the United States and heard Arabic speakers also saying something very

similar

that sounds like this: insha'allah, we have, for For example, a lot of words about food that come from Arabic, so we have things like acetate oil we have coffee as I mentioned before ahuatun coffee and we also have olives and then we have words that didn't come through food but maybe through science maybe from the architecture maybe items that the Muslims who occupied Spain had in their homes things like alcohol cajuli alcohol neighborhood neighborhood youtube algorithm give me lots of views give me all the views right now is hit the subscribe button to see more amazing videos about the language Spanish and Hispanic culture it's really cool to see and hear those Arabic words that sound so similar to the Spanish of Of course, we don't have time to go through all these 4000 words, so comment below some other Spanish words of Arabic origin and also think about English, Italian or Filipino words.

I mean, we're in a globalized world that's been globalized for a while so there's a lot of language influences floating around, well, it's the moment of truth right now. I'll tell you about the very, very interesting project that I've been doing with some members of the community and some of my friends as well, so for the last month I've been working on this participatory photography project where we ask members of the Combo Talk community to share a photo of where they are, a photo of themselves, and a photo of some items. that represent the language in their lives, so I will show some of them on the screen, but don't forget to check out the link below so you can see how interesting and diverse our community is and learn a little more about these places and don't forget to comment if you are interested in participating in the project.

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