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A fun little short video (less than two minutes) illustrating some shared vocabulary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxYrHqw3mJo
The languages are really quite unrelated — one Indo-European and the other Semitic — but there’s been a lot of vocabulary-borrowing. After all, Arabs occupied substantial portions of the Iberian Peninsula from AD 711 to AD 1492.
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