Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Was proto-romance a pidgin?

Brian M. Scott wrote:

> At 3:42:26 PM on Tuesday, April 29, 2003, alex_lycos wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> First of all not all the North Africa speak Arabic. The
>> widespread of Arabic language there where it is is mostly
>> trough the early adoption of the islamic religion and
>> since the Arabic is the language of the Coran, every good
>> muslem must know that language
>
> I believe that this last statement is false. The largest
> Islamic country (in terms of population) is Indonesia, and I
> do not believe that most Indonesians know Arabic. As I
> understand it the normal practice in non-Arabic-speaking
> Islamic countries is for the devout to commit large chunks
> of the Qur'an to rote memory; this does not require learning
> Arabic
>
> Brian

has indonesia got the islamicreligion in an earlier time? I ask it
because this statment was pointed with the center of gravity on "the
early adoption of the islamic religion ".Even Turky is a Islamic country
( ok, the status of the state is an another) but the people speak
Turkish and not Arabian. More, The Kurds are too moslems and speak
Kurdish.
A history of the islamic world ( 600 AC) will speak for itself. The
Turks have been comming later in the Region but I wonder when became the
Kurds moslems since they did not got the Arabic as their language.