Hi Brian, Thanks for your interest in the Quran Arabic Corpus, and also for your positive feedback. You may be interested to check out the comp-quran mailing list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
In particular, the two questions you have below are answered at these two links: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00223.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00078.html I hope that helps! Kind Regards, -- Kais On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Kais Dukes <[email protected]> wrote: > > ------------------------------------------- > From: Brian C[SMTP:[email protected] <smtp%[email protected]>] > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 11:08:19 PM > To: Kais Dukes > Subject: Arabic word list > Auto forwarded by a Rule > > Dear Friends and Scholars, > > I am an American English teacher living in Amman, Jordan. Although a > teacher by trade, I have been a student of the culture and language of the > Middle East since I spent the summer in Gaza shortly after completing > university back in 1997. Recently I have committed to getting a much better > grasp of the Arabic language, registering in formal courses through the > University here. One of my goals is to become more proficient at reading > the Qur'an in Arabic as many of my Arab friends tell me this is the best way > to learn the Arabic language. Theories of language acquisition aside, it > seems a good suggestion. Somehow I discovered your corpus.quran.com< > http://corpus.quran.com> website and it is a treasure for anyone trying to > learn the Arabic language from the Qur'an! Thank-you for your hard work in > making this resource available - I greatly appreciate it and I am sure > others do as well. > > Besides sharing my appreciation with you, I wanted to ask two questions: > > > > 1. Is there an offline/CD/DVD version of the corpus? It would be a > great if I could use it as a study aid even when I do not have Internet > access. > 2. I keep reading that there are only 2000 distinct words (roots?) in > the Qur'an. Is that true? Where can I find one concise list of these 2,000 > words? I would like to enter them into my flashcard/vocabulary memorization > software and work on them. However, I cannot find such a list. I did see > something that listed all of the Arabic roots - in English. I am looking > for something that would list out all of the roots in Arabic - perhaps with > the corresponding english definitions. I wonder if you may have such a list > in an excel spreadsheet as part of your own research and work in putting > together the corpus website. > > Many thanks again for your hard work and for taking the time to read this > e-mail. If you have a moment to send me a reply it would be greatly > appreciated. > > Best Regards, > > Brian Chapman > > >
