Word: arabian peninsula
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Dates: during 1896-1896
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Arabic was originally the language of a nomadic tribe living in the Arabian peninsula. Our knowledge of it begins at about the sixth century A. D., and at the time of Mohammed and the Koran. Previous to this time it had been confined in the Arabian peninsula and had there assumed a fixed form so that it was not greatly affected, when during the seventh century Mohammedanism spread over more than half of the civilized world. In most of the countries into which the Arabic language then made its way, it is still the national tongue...