The Arabic language, or the language of Dhad, is one of the most widespread languages within the Semitic languages group, in the countries of the Arab world, in addition to many other regions such as Turkey, Ahwaz, Mali, Chad, Senegal, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iran, and southern Sudan. The Arabic language is considered a sacred language on the grounds that it is the language of the Qur’an, like prayer and other rituals in the Islamic religion, is only performed with mastery of the Arabic language. It is also a ritual language in a number of Christian churches throughout the Arab world, and many of the Jewish intellectual and religious works have been written in it specifically In the Middle Ages. The spread of the Islamic religion had a direct and indirect effect on raising the status and status of the Arabic language, as it became the language of science, literature, and politics for long times in the lands ruled by Muslims, in addition to this, the Arabic language had a great influence on a number of other languages throughout the Islamic world, such as Persian and Turkish, Kurdish, Berber, Malay, Urdu, Albanian, Indonesian, and some of the South African languages such as Swahili, Hausa, Amharic, Tajiri, and Somali, in addition to some European languages, especially Portuguese, Spanish, Sicilian, and Maltese, and they are taught formally or in Afrikaans and in a number of countries. Arabic.
The status of the Arabic language and its features
The Arabic language is the official language
in all countries of the Arab world in addition to a number of other countries,
Eritrea and Chad, in addition to this, it is one of the six official languages
of the United Nations Organization, and the International Day of the Arabic
Language is celebrated on the eighteenth of December of each year. The Arabic
language is considered one of the most prolific languages in terms of
linguistic material. In the dictionary of Ibn Manzur (Lisan al-Arab), which was
composed in the thirteenth century AD, there are more than eighty thousand
articles. The number of letters in the Arabic language is twenty-eight written
letters and a number of linguists believe that it is necessary to add (the
letter hamza) to the list of letters of the language, so that the number is
twenty-nine letters and the Arabic language is written from the right side to
the left, like the Hebrew and Persian languages, unlike many languages around
the world.
The sciences of the Arabic language
v
The science of grammar: It is the science that researches the origin of forming sentences and the rules for their
syntax.
v
The science of rhetoric: means the power
of influence and a good statement. This science has been developed for science by
the structures located in speech and this science has been divided into three
parts, namely:
·
The science of rhetoric.
·
Semantics.
·
The art or science of figures of
speech
v
The science of performances and
rhymes: It
defines the performances as the science that searches in the case of weights or
poetic balance by which the weighted is known from the broken, and it is also
defined as the music of poetry or the science of poetry.
v The
science of derivation.
v Conjugation.
v Parsing.
v Synonymy
and contrast.
