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This article studies the linguistic and cultural impact of the Arabic language on Songhai. It explains the intense bonds between the Songhai people and Arabs, and how the Arabic language affected their language. This influence is the fruit of friction between the Sudanese people and the Muslim Arabs. It reflects the quality of the relationship based on mutual respect and high-handedness from the Muslim preachers, which opened the hearts of Sudan to them and welcomed them warmly, and instilled in them the love of Arabism and a positive attitude towards Arabism and Arabism. It ended with an intellectual-cultural mating, and a social melting; The Sudanization of many Arabs in language, and the claim of some of the Sudan lineage of Arabism. The study summarized the manifestation of the impact on the linguistic level: - Linguistic borrowing (literally, figuratively) and determining the causes. - The transcription of the Songhai language using the Arabic alphabet and its objectives: - Commentary on the Arabic Literary works in the Songhai language. - Production of scientific works in the Songhai language.
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