The phenomenon of "Chiastic Concord" of Numbers: A Resuming Study in Light of the Rules of Semitic Languages

Abstract

This study represents a scientific attempt to provide an appealing explanation of the phenomenon of "Chiastic Concord" of numbers, a mysterious phenomenon that preoccupied grammatical thinking in the Semitic family. Therefore, this study came to address an epistemological problem revealed by the essential question: What is the reason for the Chiastic Concord that we find in the names of the basic numbers?

The study attempts to provide a scientific explanation of Chiastic Concord by following the rules of Semitic languages ​​in the field of femininity and in the field of numbers specifically. Thus, the significance of the study is determined.

The study’s methodology was based on a large pursuing process of the studies produced in addressing the question of Chiastic Concord, then shortening and summarizing these studies, and then discussing the results and the summaries of these studies. The dialogue was divided into two thoughts: grammatical thinking in the Arabic domain and in the other’s.

The study came to a central conclusion, which states that the disorder we find in the grammatical rules of numbers in Semitic languages ​​is in fact due to an incomplete development in these languages. We may find varying degrees of development in these languages which explains the few discrepancies in the grammatical rules of numbers in these languages.