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+## 📜 Linguistic and Literary Significance of the Qur’an
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+### 🧬 A Living Corpus Preserved in Speech
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+The Qur’an is the only major historical text that has been **memorized word-for-word by millions of people** across generations, regions, and languages — regardless of whether they spoke Arabic natively.
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+- Over **1,400 years old**, the Arabic text of the Qur’an remains **unchanged**, **recited daily**, and **actively memorized**, verse by verse.
+- It is preserved not only in manuscripts but in **oral transmission**, making it one of the most reliably reconstructed texts in human linguistic history.
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+### 🌍 Translated into Languages That Didn’t Yet Exist
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+Several languages in this dataset — such as **Modern Burmese (Myanmar)**, **Swahili**, or **Indonesian** — did not exist in their current written forms when the Qur’an was revealed.
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+Yet today, these communities:
+- Study and translate the Qur’an with deep linguistic care
+- Retain the **verse structure** in all translations
+- Participate in a **global multilingual alignment** with the same source text
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+This makes the Qur’an a **linguistic anchor** across centuries, preserved in meaning and form across **dozens of linguistic systems**.
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+### ✍️ Neither Prose Nor Poetry — A Unique Register
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+From a literary standpoint, the Qur’an’s structure is:
+- Not classical prose
+- Not traditional poetry
+- But a **distinct rhythmic and rhetorical form** known for:
+  - Internal rhyme and parallelism
+  - Recurring motifs
+  - High semantic density and emotional resonance
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+This genre continues to challenge both literary analysis and computational modeling.
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+### 🤖 Relevance to AI and Linguistics
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+The Qur’an is an ideal corpus for AI-based multilingual NLP:
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+- 🔁 Fully aligned across 53 languages
+- 🧩 Rigid source structure (verse-level)
+- 🧠 Oral memory transmission modeling
+- 🌐 Cross-lingual semantic drift analysis
+- 🛠️ Faithful translation alignment tasks
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+It provides a **fixed point of semantic comparison** for understanding how languages represent meaning — historically and today.
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 ## 🪪 License
 
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