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1️⃣ The Beautiful language : Historical Facts about the Arabic language
2️⃣ The Arabic language is the most spoken Semitic language, and one of the most widespread languages in the world, spoken by more than 467 million people
3️⃣Arabic speakers are found in Arab League countries, in addition to many other neighboring countries , such as Ahwaz, Turkey, Chad, Mali, Senegal, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Iran. Thus, it's the 4th most widely spoken languages in the world
4️⃣ The Arabic language is of the utmost importance to Muslims, for it is a sacred language for them as it is the language of the Qur’an, and it is the language of prayer and essential in performing many Islamic rituals and rituals.
5️⃣ Arabic is also the main ritual language of a number of Christian churches in the Arab world, and many of the most important religious and intellectual works of Judaism in the Middle Ages were written in it.
6️⃣ The status of the Arabic language increased due to spread of Islamic culture, literature and the rich philosophical and scientific studies written in Arabic that spread neighboring countries scholars and population , Arabic succeeded Latin as the language of politics, science
7️⃣ and literature for many centuries in the lands ruled by Muslims and neighboring Christian nations that traded with Muslims and helped enrich Arabs culture through scientific , artistic, architectural and agricultural exchange
8️⃣ The Arabic language has a direct and indirect effect on many other languages ​​in the Islamic world, such as Turkish, Persian, Berber, Kurdish, Urdu, Malay, Indonesian, Albanian, and some other African languages ​​such as Hausa, Swahili, Tajiri, Amharic, Somali,
9️⃣ and some European languages, especially Mediterranean, such as Spanish, Portuguese, Maltese and Sicily. Many of its terms entered into English and other languages, such as Admiral, Tariff, Alcohol, Algebra and some Star Names.
🔟 It is also taught formally or informally in Islamic countries and African countries bordering the Arab world, also used to be taught in some European countries pre the renaissance times .
1️⃣1️⃣ The Arabic language is one of the richest languages in terms of linguistic material. For example, the dictionary of Lisan al-Arab by Ibn Manzur from the thirteenth century contains more than 80 thousand articles
1️⃣2️⃣ Arabic contains 28 written letters. Some linguists believe that the Hamza letter should be added to the Arabic letters, bringing the number of letters to 29. Arabic is written from right to left - as are Persian and Hebrew.
1️⃣3️⃣Some say that the Arabic language is the closest Semitic language to the "mother Semitic language", because it has preserved ancient elements that go back to the mother Semitic language more than any other Semitic language.
1️⃣4️⃣It has sounds that are not found in any of the other Semitic languages, in addition to the presence of the parsing system, many formulas for the deconstructive groups and many other linguistic phenomena that were present in the native Semitic language.
1️⃣5️⃣The "northern" Arabic language is considered the closest to the origin from which the Semitic languages branched off, because the Arabs of the north did not mix much with other nations, and other nations did not submit them to their rule,
1️⃣6️⃣as was the case in many other previous nations such as the Hebrews, Babylonians and Assyrians, so the desert kept them from invading enemies. He ruled foreign nations, as it preserved their language from being influenced greatly by others.
1️⃣7️⃣ Also, Arabic is the Semitic language that most retains the first Semitic features, as it has retained most of the sounds of the Semitic language and its grammatical and morphological features.
1️⃣8️⃣ And although many Non Native Arab nations remained true to their identity and heritage , such as Berbers , Kurds, Persians, and some Assyrians and Syriacs, they learned the Arabic language and spoke it fluently in addition to their mother tongue
1️⃣9️⃣ some of these native non Arab nations embraced Islam such as the Kurds, Persians , and even Those who remained in the Christian, Jewish, or Mandaean religion, spoke Arabic as a second language alongside their mother tongue.
2️⃣0️⃣Many of non Arab scholars contributions during the early days of Islam till the end of the Abbasid empire made the Arabic language one of science and literature during the golden age of the Islamic state, unfortunately all that changed under the oppression of the Ottomans
2️⃣1️⃣ All forms of art, science and literature were plundered and taken away into the Ottomans home territory, even architectural wonders were plundered and destroyed, millions of books and articles were lost between the Mongols wars and early days of Ottoman reign.
2️⃣2️⃣ The language deteriorated, the once beacons of science art, literature and culture, schools and universities were reduced into mere basic level schools within few decades under the dark 400 years of Ottoman rule
2️⃣3️⃣Thankfully a good portion of Arabic literature has been saved by orientalist, collecting Arabic literature early 11th through the 17th century European scholars and scientists, also the people of Arabia were successful in maintaining their language alive through spoken word
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