Is it possible to put the complete essential meanings of a language in one page? and in a formula of 3 variables only?
Nawa proposes that it is possible to deduce a fixed essential meaning for any word without prior knowledge of it.
The work has been put in a book:
The Standardised Meanings of Arabic Letter,
A Book in Semantics, Syntax, Meanings of Letters, Words and Patterns of Quran.
This can be achieved through a simple equation whose variables consist of:
- The letters that make up the word.
- The positions of the letters within the word.
- The standard meanings of the letters.
The result of this equation is called the essential meaning or the essence, because it is derived from the meanings of the letters without the need for a dictionary or context.
The Work/Research Goal
The primary goal of the research was to create a zeroth-dictionary (without prior data) by assigning standard meanings to letters. This was accomplished by analyzing a large number of roots and words over two years (Approx 5,000 roots), during which a relationship was found between commonly recognized meanings, their mental imagery, and the letters themselves.
Proof of Theory
To validate the theory, the following were conducted:
- Multi-participant survey: measuring the degree of agreement between participants’ perceived meanings of letters and those of the author.
- Comparison with dictionaries: such as Maqāyīs al-Lughah, Doha Dictionary, and Al-Ma‘ānī Dictionary.
- Experiment on the Qur’an: ensuring consistency between essential meanings and Qur’anic vocabulary, its disjointed letters, structure, and purposes.
- Comparison with ancient scripts: such as the Musnad script.
The results were consistent with the principles of the theory and showed no contradictions.
Applications
- Explaining linguistic phenomena: The theory lays the foundation for a logical and scientific grammar, explaining inflections, derivations, and syntax.
- Creating new concepts: The theory is not merely a tool for interpreting meanings, but also a generative linguistic mechanism. For instance, a new root “نقج” could be coined to mean filtering and heating water, a word absent from any dictionary.
- Accurate translation: The theory could revolutionize translation from Arabic into other languages. For example, the word “ضرب” is explained as opposing the established flow for the sake of reward, which can be translated as “oppose the flow for rewarding.”
- Answering major linguistic questions: The theory proposes answers to: How did language originate? How does it function? How can it be developed?
- The purest dataset and the simplest algorithm to generate images from meanings.
Use of References
The author deliberately refrained from consulting references related to the semantics of letters, in order to preserve the fundamental principles of the research:
- Proving that the meanings of letters are embedded within the language itself.
- Demonstrating that deducing these meanings is an innate process that anyone can perform.
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