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English and Spanish are written with the same alphabet system, are they the same langauge ?
Iranians, And Arabs use Arabic Alphabets, is it the same language ?
The Arabic language did not always use the alphabet system it uses now, or at the time when the Quran was revealed, it was adopted after a period of time even before the Quran was revealed which does not mean that the language was derived from that laugauge it adopted its alphabet system from.
Before the northern semetic alphabet was adopted, southern Arabic used a different alphabet system all together.
As it is remined the oldest Arabic script are found in the Minaean dialect which used an alphabet system not dependent on the northern semitic alphabet.
Development and diffusion of alphabets > The South Semitic alphabet
The South Semitic, or Sabaean, branch remained within the confines of the Arabian Peninsula for most of its history. It was in use at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC. The most that can be said about its origins is that it neither developed from nor directly depended upon the North Semitic alphabet. It may have been derived, ultimately, from the proto-Sinaitic script, with some influence from the North Semitic. Offshoots from the South Semitic branch include the Minaean, Himyaritic, Qatabanic, and Hadhramautic alphabets in southern Arabia, and Thamudene, Dedanite, and Safaitic alphabets in the northern part of the peninsula. Numerous inscriptions in these alphabets are the principal source for the study of those once-flourishing kingdoms, including Saba' (the biblical Sheba), relegated by the rise of Islam to the backwaters of history.
The Sabaean offshoot, a graceful and elegant script consisting of 29 letters, spread into Africa, where it became the progenitor of the Ethiopic alphabet; this in turn gave birth to the modern Amharic, Tigré, Tigrinya, and other alphabets of modern Ethiopia. These are the only South Semitic scripts still in use today.
Encyclopedia Britannica 2004
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