Arabic is the language closest to Syriac after Syriac, and the difference between them is not great.
Al-Masoudi
What we have come to know and have learned with certainty is that Syriac, Arabic and Arabic are the languages ​​of Mudar and Rabi’ah, not the language of Himyar. They are a single language that has changed with the change in the dwellings of its people.
Ibn Hazm
As for the news of the Arabs in Iraq in the first generation, who are the pure Arabs, the details and explanation of their situation have not reached us, except that the people of Ad and the Amalekites ruled Iraq.
- Ibn Khaldun
The Arabs comprised three tribes whose lands were located directly next to each other. This indicates that they had a common origin, and so they were called by similar names: one of these tribes was called "Armenians" and the other "Arameans", a very strong name.
- Strabo - Greek historian
The Semites in other lands surrounding the Arabian Peninsula are viewed as simply successive migrations of Arabs.
Albert Clay - American historian
All Semites, in my opinion, are successive classes of Arabs.
- Alois Sprenger - Austrian Orientalist