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asabilyesterday at 11:49 AM1 replyview on HN

Yes Arabic from 1000 years ago is very much understandable today[1].

[1] https://fluentarabic.net/arabic-unchanged-1000-years/


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Bayartyesterday at 12:39 PM

The article doesn't expound on it, but it very much depends on what Arabic means to you. Depending on the answer, it's really a dozen different languages. I know people who only speak their own darija and classical literature is utterly obscure to them.

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