By the eighth century in North Africa, Arabic had ousted Latin as the dominant language; by the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Arabic civilization had fully spread through Spain. In fact, even by 724, John, bishop of Seville, was…
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I’ve heard that figure, too. Thanks for this cool list of Arabic-into-Spanish loan words. :)
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The influence of Arabic on Spanish is still quite strong; I heard once that 10% of Spanish words are of Arabic origin....
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