Thursday 16 August 2012

ديموغرافيا Demography

-->
Etymology of arabic words: the word ديموغرافيا
(dimografian) which means Demography has its roots in the Greek language. (Demography is the statistical study of human populations). The word coined in french in 19th century, on the basis of the ancient greek word δήμος (dimos) which had the meaning, the people of a city and the graphy word-forming element meaning "process of writing or recording" or "a writing, recording, or description “ which derives from the Greek verb γράφω (grafo) which means to write. In Turkish they use the word Demografi.



No comments:

Post a Comment