Wrote Ahmad ibn Mahmoud ibn Mohammed Aal Risk:
>More on 'Feringhi'.
(snip)
>Al Gharb also denotes 'The West' (as in the western world).
...resulting in the present name of the Southern region of Portugal -
Algarve - which Ahmad knows and was the westermost region reached by the
Arab expansion.
>Languages do fascinate me.
YES!!
Then, if you checked out Portuguese (and Spanish, for that matter) you
found dozens of Arabic words and grammar traits in it. Such as in the
lenght of the names...
Cheers,
Armando Jose' de Oliveira Brito de Sa'
:-))
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