14:50:05lokeAllah is just the Arabic word for "god"
14:52:18lokeI do travel to Lebanon with some regularity, and even though pretty much everybody speaks French and English there, Arabic is sitll the official language, and it would be fun to know enough to order food at a restaurant at least. :-)
15:10:22TMAloke: no, sorry. It is absent from the egyptian and iraqi arabic, iirc. I do not know anything in particular about others. I know that it is the nominative case ending (the genitive being -i and accusative -a). The rules are somewhat complex, not as complex as sanskrit sandhi though
15:13:05TMAloke: please reevaluate sanskrit after you have acquanited yourself with arabic verbal conjugation. sanskrit is stock indoeuropean, therefore easy on us
15:18:24smokeinkwell French is also indoeuropean but I wouldn't say it's easier than Arabic . I wouldn't say it's harder either... If you want to learn a language, just do it; no language is easy to master.
15:19:36smokeinkis the Arabic's grammar that complicated ?