Rigby5
Diamond Member
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You have no knowledge of language.
The lack of p and b in Arabic is not a deficiency, but a sign of age.
Similarly with Japanese, older language have fewer sound typically.
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Notice that several English sounds are missing from the Japanese language entirely: "c," "f," "l," "q," "v," and "x." When Japanese want to represent these sounds, they have to use Japanese syllables that sound almost the same. For example, to pronounce the country name "France," Japanese say "Huransu."
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But English only has 44 basic phonemes, while Japanese actually has 46, so is a more complicated language.
But you can tell Arabic is much older than both because is only has 34 basic phonemes.
But again, Hebrew is a Semitic language, meaning it is derived from the previous Arab languages.