Abstract

The Arabic language is one of the dialects of the Arabian Peninsula, as Khalil bin Ahmad al-Farahidi (175 AH) pointed out the relationship between Arabic and one of its sisters, saying:)) Canaan son of Shem son of Noah, to him belong the Canaanites and they spoke a language close to Arabic ((( ), and he brought Arabic closer to the other dialects of the Arabian Peninsula, which made us conclude that it is one of them, as it goes back to one component that has its sound system that is known by it, so most often the sounds of these dialects are similar except for some sounds that were replaced or disappeared for some reason ( ).
 The term (Semitic peoples) (Semites) was applied to the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula, and the first to conceive of this term was the orientalist (Schloezer) ((Schloezer (1781) attributed to the sons of (Shem son of Noah) (), and one of the researchers mentioned that the correct name for those peoples from a historical and geographical point of view is (the peoples of the island) or (the islanders) or (the ancient Arab peoples) (), or (the islandic) attributed to the dialects of the Arabian Peninsula ( ). And Dr. Wala'a Sadiq Muhsin has another opinion, as she called them (dialects) and explained that she did not say languages on the assumption that these dialects are a unified language for the dialects of the Arabian Peninsula, which is what was called the mother tongue ( ). And in this research we adopt the opinion of the professor and what she pointed out.

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