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The Arabic Language....
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Arabic (العربية) is a
Semitic language, closely related to
Hebrew and
Aramaic. It is spoken throughout the Arab world and is widely known
throughout the Islamic world. Arabic has been a literary language since at
least the 6th century, and is the liturgical language of
Islam.
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The expression "Arabic" may refer either to literary
Arabic or to the many spoken varieties of Arabic; Arabs consider literary
Arabic as the standard language and tend to view everything else as mere
dialects. Literary Arabic, (Literally: the
most eloquent Arabic language—اللغة العربية الفصحى) refers both to the
language of present-day media across North Africa and the
Middle East and to the language of the
Qur'an. (The expression media
here includes most television and radio, and all written matter, including
all books, newspapers, magazines, documents of every kind, and reading
primers for small children.) "Colloquial" or "dialectal" Arabic refers to
the many national or regional dialects/languages derived from Classical
Arabic, spoken daily across North Africa and the Middle East, which
constitute the everyday spoken language. |
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These sometimes differ enough to be mutually
incomprehensible. These dialects are not frequently written, although a
certain amount of literature (particularly plays and poetry) exists in many
of them, notably those of Egypt and
Lebanon. They are often used to varying
degrees in informal spoken media, such as soap operas and chat shows. |
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It is sometimes difficult to translate
Islamic
concepts, and concepts specific to Arab culture, without using the
original Arabic terminology. The Qur'an is
expressed in Arabic and traditionally Muslims deem it impossible to
translate in a way that would adequately reflect its exact meaning—indeed,
cause it is one of the holy books that is written in pure
Arabic language which is rich and full of
meanings. Classical Arabic is one of the hardest
languages in the world and it is not used in the daily life basis
communication but among scholars or news papers or books or studied in the
universities. There are many Arab historians the most famous one is Mujeer
El-Deen he wrote a lot about the history of the
Middle East and Egypt and his resources are of
a special value, his tomb is located in
jerusalem near by the Mount of Olives. |
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