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- Arabic is descended from a language known as Proto-Semitic. As a result of this relationship, Arabic is firmly placed in the Afro-Asian group of world languages. Modern Arabic is considered to be a sub-branch of the central group of Western Semitic languages, extending the relationship between Arabic and the other Semitic languages.
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Oct 25, 2024 · Arabic language, Semitic language spoken in a large area including North Africa, most of the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the Middle East. (See also Afro-Asiatic languages.) Scholars have struggled to define Arabic as a language.
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Nov 18, 2022 · Summary. Introduction. At a rough guess, approximately 200 million people usea variety of Arabic as their mother tongue. But thedomain of Arabic does not stop at the boundaries ofthe Arabophone area.
Arabic is spoken by as many as 380 million speakers, both native and non-native, in the Arab world, [1] making it the fifth most spoken language in the world, [22] and the fourth most used language on the internet in terms of users.
An official language of the United Nations, Arabic is widely used every day all over the world, to worship, to tell stories, to sing songs, to discuss personal lives, even to discuss fashion choices. Some 350 million or so use it as a mother tongue, and another 800 million as a religious language.
- The Spread of The Arabic Language
- Arabic in Islamic Society
- Fusha and ˓Ammiyya
- Arabic as A World Language
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After the death of the prophet Muhammad the Islamic conquests brought the religion and the language of the Arab tribes into a large area stretching from Islamic Spain to Central Asia. The languages originally spoken in this area (Coptic, Persian, Syriac, Berber) gave way to the linguistic onslaught of Arabic, and even though some of the speakers re...
At the beginning of Islam, Arabic became the language of both private and public life in the Arab empire. During a transitional period the indigenous languages remained in use, for instance in Egypt where Greek and Coptic were used for administrative purposes along with Arabic. But at the end of the first century of the Hijra, Arabic was firmly est...
The contemporary linguistic situation in the Arab world is characterized by diglossia, in which two varieties of the language have strictly separate roles or functions in the speech community. The so-called High variety, called fusha or al-˓arabiyya, is the language learned at school as the carrier of a rich religious and literary heritage; it is t...
After the Arab conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 c.e., the influence of the Arabic language spread beyond the borders of the Islamic world. Due to its role as the language in which Greek philosophy and science were transmitted, European scholars came to regard Arabic as the language of culture and scholarship. A large amount of translations ...
Ayalon, Ami. Language and Change in the Arab Middle East:The Evolution of Modern Political Discourse. New York and Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UniversityPress, 1987. Bakalla, Muhammad Hasan. Arabic Linguistics: An Introduction and Bibliography.London: Mansell, 1983. Blau, Joshua. The Beginnings of the Arabic Diglossia: A Study of the Origins of Neo-Arabic...
May 2, 2023 · Today, Arabic is one of the fastest-growing languages in the world. This growth is an undeniable testament to the enduring power and relevance of Arabic. It also proves the cultural and economic significance of the Arab world and North Africa on the global stage.
Jan 23, 2015 · Key’s latest research showcases the Arab world’s unique understandings of language across grammar, logic, poetics, law and theology.
