Originally Posted by
Segata Sanshiro
That feel when his counter source is some randos blog
I'm willing to believe that the arguement that only 2.9% of Arabic derived vocabulary is used on a daily basis, but it's a well-known fact among linguists, Hispanologists and Romanticists that Arabic produced 8% of the Spanish lexicon (even if only around 3% of daily vocab is of arabic origins), and has contributed as a whole, more to Spanish than any one other langauge aside from Latin. And note I say, one language, not a group of languages like CV lumping all Amerindian languages together to try and lessen the effect. While Nahuatl, Quechua, Maya, Taino, Aymara, etc may have contributed more words as a collecive whole (of unrelated languages), Arabic contributed more words than each individually, hence it is the second largest contributor of vocabulary by amount.