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Dec 17, 2021 · Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people across the Middle East and in diaspora communities across the world. On 18 December the UN will mark World Arabic Language Day to honour the...
- The word Arab means nomad. If we have a look at the history of the Arabic language, it originated before more than 1, 500 years from nomadic tribes in the desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula.
- The Arabic alphabet is not actually an alphabet but an ajbad. This is a system where each letter stands for a consonant and not a vowel. In written language are used vowel marks to denote the vowels as well as their length.
- There are many Arabic words which have entered the English language. Directly or indirectly through the Romance languages. Such words are admiral, cotton, coffee and giraffe as well as alcohol, algebra, algorithm and alkaline.
- Besides English the Arabian language has influenced many other languages. Persian, Turkish, Hindi, Malay as well as Bosnian and Swahili all contain Arab words or vocabulary borrowed from Arabic words.
May 2, 2023 · The tremendous growth of Arabic is a positive expansion for Arabs, Arab Americans, and non-Arabs. This language is filled with endless opportunities which it offers to the world, from its cultural traditions and history to its growing economic, innovative, and political importance.
Jan 23, 2015 · The Arab world’s preoccupation with the mechanics of language has a long history. More then a millennium ago, scholars in what is now Iran were reading, thinking and writing books about how metaphors work.
Dec 18, 2015 · The British Council's Faraan Sayed shares some lesser-known facts about the language. There are more than 300 million Arabic speakers in the world. Arabic is the official language of the 22 countries that form the Arab League.
Oct 25, 2024 · Arabic language, a Semitic language spoken in areas including North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the Middle East. The language of the Qur’an (the sacred book of Islam) is often considered the ideal archetype of Arabic’s many varieties, and the literary standard closely approaches that archetype.
Dec 25, 2019 · The Arabic Language is rich in conveying meanings of a phrase, and one word describes in many styles of articulation, meaning, and definition. For instance, for the word’ love,’ there are at least 11 words and hundreds for ‘camel.’
