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Hi! 23r2 here. Just to clarify, languages that use the Arabic script and/or have a similar/related lexicon/structure can only descend from the Arabic language family, meaning it is part of the Afroasiatic language. This is because the script/root language comes from Afro-Asian countries, such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia etc.

I have a degree in Linguistics and Asian History, as well as (unrelated) English Literacy and Computer Science. I come from the Kuril Islands and speak Balochi Ainu and Hokkaido Ainu, as well as having a job as a court translator, specialising in Afroasiatic languages such as Balochi and Arabic.

I hope this clears things up.

Thanks, 23r2 (talk) 20:11, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

:*Afroasiatic Family

:23r2 (talk) 22:56, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

::It clears up that you are using words in a way that I have never heard any linguist use them. I have never before heard any linguist refer to a language as "Arabic" because it uses Arabic script. If you went to any linguistics department and claimed that Balochi is an Afroasiatic language, you would get laughed at.

::There is no necessary connection between the descent of a language and the script it might happen to use. Kurdish and Farsi are Indo-Iranian languages (with some borrowings from Arabic) which use the Arabic script - as, formerly, did several Turkic languages, including Osmanli Turkish, and Austronesian languages such as Malay. Conversely, Maltese is an Arabic language (with a lot of borrowings from Italian and other Indo-European languages) that uses Roman script.

::Ossetian is an Indo-Iranian language which uses a Cyrillic script. Yiddish is an Indo-European language (specifically, Germanic) which uses Hebrew script.

::And Hindi and Urdu were formerly referred to as a single language (Hindustani) but one of them uses Devanagari and the other a form of Arabic script. ColinFine (talk) 14:07, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

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