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 Future of the Arabic Language
The future of the Arabic language engages the attention of a host of linguists, thinkers, men of letters, authors and researchers concerned with the development of thoughts, language, literature and cultural life in general within the Arab-Islamic world.
No researcher working on the process of language evolution contests or questions the validity of this rule, which should be adopted in assessing the situation of the Arabic language in the present era, and in understanding the retrogression, weakness and problems of the Arabic language.
The keen interest taken in redressing language problems and issues, to help reverse the disaffection of language by large groups of its speakers, is part and parcel of the core interest in the civilizational edification of the Islamic Ummah.
www.isesco.org.ma /pub/Eng/Marabic/index.htm   (931 words)

  
 Language Encyclopedia Article @ Canst.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Zamenhof as a compilation of various elements of different languages, and was intended to be an easy-to-learn language for people familiar with similar languages.
Language is an element of culture that contributes to every aspect of human relationships.
Because of language’s ability to encode a wide range of meanings, and represent almost all ideas, it is the ultimate cultural artifact.
www.canst.net /encyclopedia/Language   (1761 words)

  
 Future of the Arabic Language
Safeguarding the Arabic language, working for its expansion and giving it more power among the Arab societies and the Arab Islamic communities overseas is not simply an educational and a learning enterprise, a cultural or literary activity, or a mandate of the Ministries of education or the specialized institutions, bodies and organizations.
The Arabic language is one of the cornerstones of the cultural, civilization, and cultural security of the Arab and Islamic Ummah, both in the present and in the future.
The language issue should go beyond the scope of appealing to, calling for or asking the competent authorities to discharge their duty towards their language, to issue responsible decisions, and pass binding laws that considers language error not merely as a defect, an insult, or a deficiency but as a breach of law.
www.isesco.org.ma /pub/Eng/Marabic/P3.htm   (1405 words)

  
 Seattle Language Academy, Arabic Classes Seattle, Study Arabic Seattle, Learn Arabic Seattle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Arabic is spoken by almost 200 million people in more than twenty countries, from Morocco to Iraq and as far south as Somalia and the Sudan.
Today, Arabic serves as the official language of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco; it is the liturgical language of Muslims in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Classical Arabic has changed little over the centuries; the Arabic used in official documents and for some kinds of formal speech (it is this that is now known as Formal-Standard Arabic) is essentially the same as the language of the Qur'an and Classical Arabic literature.
www.sealang.com /flp/flp_arabic.asp   (363 words)

  
 Arabic Language of Quran
Arabic Language Institute of AUC, is perhaps one of the most established and well-known programs for acquiring knowledge of the Arabic language.
Al-Diwan is a language Centre specialising in teaching Arabic as a foreign language, a favourite with students from America.
The Arab Academy's intensive Arabic language program claims to allow the student to study from wherever he is, at his own pace and still be supervised by professional teachers who are native speakers of Arabic.
www.study-arabic.info /institutes/africa/egypt_inst.htm   (999 words)

  
 Arabic_Type1
Arabic type has remained to this day strictly concerned with preserving its traditional creation of seductive poetic letterforms that appeal first and foremost to the emotional side of the brain.
The problem with the original Arabic type designs is that they were in principle not designed to be used at sizes smaller that 14 pt, since they were originally intended as display fonts that followed in their design the handwriting of the calligrapher.
Hamburgevios), Arabic has no such set and all the basic shapes need to be drawn not only as freestanding forms but also in their variant shapes and as ligatures (end note 3).
www.sakkal.com /articles/Arabic_Type_Article/Arabic_Type1.html   (3479 words)

  
 The Arabic language
ARABIC ranks sixth in the world's league table of languages, with an estimated 186 million native speakers.
Arabic has many regional dialects, and if you want to master one of these the only really effective way is to spend a few years in the place of your choice.
Arabic has very few irregular verbs and does not use "is" or "are" at all in the present tense: "the king good" means "the king is good".
www.al-bab.com /arab/language/lang.htm   (639 words)

  
 Organizations
Thus, the constituting law of the Kurdish Academy, based on the provisions of article 42 (a) of Iraq's Interim Constitution, was promulgated in August 1970 by the Revolutionary Command Council, and signed by the President of the Republic.
The Kurdish Scientific Academy (henceforth the Academy), Korrí Zaniyarí Kurd, began as the Kurdish branch of the Iraqi Scientific Academy, although it was considered to be an independent body with separate legal character and having financial and administrative independence.
The Academy was administered by a presidential council and represented by the Minister of Education before the responsible authorities (Article 1).
www.kurdishacademy.org /english/org/org-006.html   (1227 words)

  
 AramediA Group,efaq.htm, Arabic language, Arabic software, Islamic multimedia, Educational Software, Learn Arabic, ...
It is the official language of 21 Arab countries where it is used in the oral and written form on all formal occasions.
Hence, it is the liturgical language of all Muslims around the world whose total approaches a billion, that is 20% of the population of the world.
When two languages, or two varieties of the same language, exist side by side over the years, each being assigned specific functions, a state of diglossia is said to exist.
www.aramedia.com /efaq.htm   (1527 words)

  
 El-jaahil 'adoww nafsoh: Arabic
Language of what was once one of the most learned cultures on the planet, Arabic commands far less Web presence than it deserves, owing to the Internet's heavy Roman-alphabet bias.
One of the most widely-spoken tongues on earth (ten Arabic dialects are listed in Ethnologue's tally of the 100 most-spoken languages), Arabic is spoken not only in the Middle East, but also by Africa's expansive arabophone and Arabic-influenced "twilight zone" cultures.
Majm'a Al-Logha Al Arabiyya, Egypt's Arabic Language Academy, oversees the growth and development of modern Arabic, while Arabic-L, a news list dedicated to Arabic linguistics and teaching, keeps Arabic scholars in touch and up to date worldwide.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/world_languages/25560   (458 words)

  
 Al-Abed Al-Haq, A CASE STUDY OF LANGUAGE PLANNING IN JORDAN: Abstract
This dissertation is an exploratory study of language conflict, language planning, and language-user attitudes toward Arabicization in the context of language policy in Jordan.
The questionnaires probe nine factors: (a) language use patterns; (b) language attitudes; (c) proficiency in Arabic and English; (d) attitudes and knowledge about variation in Arabic; (e) instrumentality of language; (f) students' achievement; (g) general standard of education if Arabicization were implemented in Jordan; (h) practical commitment to Arabicization; and (i) attitudes towards Arabicization.
Finally, the review of literature of Language Planning in Jordan reveals that there is a lack of formal association between the Arabic Language Academy of Jordan and the Jordanian universities' authorities, such that there is no real incentive for universities to adopt the fruits of the Academy's labors.
ling.wisc.edu /abstracts/alhaq.htm   (278 words)

  
 Establishment of Arabic language academy
The Academy published the unparalleled Dictionary of Modern Civilization and Art Terms (1980) with a view to maintaining the genius of the Arabic Language and to bridge the gap in communication.
The Academy put on a revival the cultural heritage through publishing verified editions of the classics of literature and established a scientific basis for the study of contemporary colloquial Arabic language in all Arab countries.
Hence, the Cairo-based Arabic Language Academies Union's bureau established in 1971.
www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/000131/2000013133.html   (980 words)

  
 Chawki Deif; head of Academy of the Arabic Language; 95 | The San Diego Union-Tribune
The head of the Academy of the Arabic Language, Chawki Deif, who was also renowned for his books on Arabic literature, has died at the age of 95.
In 1942 he received a doctorate for his work "Artistic Genres in Arabic Poetry," a book that became a classic and is still widely read in Arab universities.
He joined the Academy of the Arabic Language, a Cairo-based institute that is the Arab equivalent of the Academie Francaise.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050429/news_1m29deif.html   (266 words)

  
 Study Abroad Opportunities in Arabic
Students choose either to concentrate on intensive study of the Arabic language or to focus on the study of North African cultures.
Focus is on obtaining language proficiency with priority in admission given to professions, graduate students, individuals receiving grants for intensive language study, and to individuals from partnership institutions.
Value The Arab Academy's intensive Arabic language program allows you to study from wherever you are at your own pace and still be supervised by professional teachers who are native speakers of Arabic.
www.studyabroad.com /simplehtml/languages/arabic.html   (5372 words)

  
 Knesset panel backs establishment of Arabic language academy - Haaretz - Israel News
The proposal outlines an annual budget to be allotted for the preservation and research of the Arabic language.
He explained that it is inconceivable that though Arabic is recognized as one of Israel's official languages, it is not afforded the same goodwill, or the same financial support that Yiddish and Ladino are given.
The Academy is meant to, among other things, address the problem of the growing use of Hebrew among Arab youth, which is creating a hybrid dialect and lowering the level of the Arabic spoken by the Arab community as a whole.
www.haaretz.com /hasen/spages/790826.html   (591 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Culture | Keeping up
PROFESSOR Mahmoud Hafez was elected president of the Arabic Language Academy following the passing away this year of Professor Shawqi Deif, the former president of the Academy.
The Academy is international in the sense that it has both Arab and non-Arab Orientalists, as its members.
The motto of the Academy is that knowledge and understanding among countries of the East and these of the West are above all.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/763/cu6.htm   (732 words)

  
 globalEDGE (TM) | academy - business language guides
Arabic is one of the world's largest languages.
Foreign language educators face the challenge of how to facilitate connections of foreign language education to international business.
You can take part in the continuous improvement of our Academy section by sharing with us additional resources you feel are relevant to our users: Submit a resource.
globaledge.msu.edu /Academy/Languages/index.asp   (859 words)

  
 Major Online Text Collections by Language
Users hoping to make use of them for any type of text analysis should be aware, however, that such public-domain texts may vary widely not only in format, but in quality and reliability as well.
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, University of Chicago (ARTFL) is a database consisting of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
Latin and English texts, under the auspices of the British Academy edited by John Kilcullen and John Scott for the series Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/ets/offsite.language.html   (1306 words)

  
 Arabic Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The goal of this series of courses is to develop sufficient language skills to understand classical religious texts in their original Arabic.
This pilot course is the first step in a multi-year Arabic program that will take students from no knowledge of Arabic to a high-level of proficiency.
Introductory Arabic 2 will build on the first part of this series and will delve further into grammatical states; verb forms; word roots; sentence breakdowns; and more.
course.sunnipath.com /Category.aspx?CategoryID=44   (251 words)

  
 Resources of Scholarly Societies - Languages
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres = Academy of Inscriptions and Humanities [In French and English.
Association for the History of Language ["...formerly known as the Melbourne Association for the History of Language"]
Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde = Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature [In Dutch.]
www.scholarly-societies.org /language_soc.html   (1083 words)

  
 Conference Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 3190 (XXVIII) (French) of 18 December 1973, in that year Arabic became the sixth official and working language of the General Assembly of the United Nations and its main commissions, the others being Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
When the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) was established in 1973, Arabic, English and French were adopted as its official and working languages.
It was decided that Arabic should be the original language in which all resolutions are formulated and into which all technical and other documents issued in languages other than Arabic should be translated (Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, rule 25 and 28).
www.escwa.org.lb /information/infoconf.asp   (199 words)

  
 Seattle Language Academy, Language Schools Seattle, Foreign Language Classes, ESL Classes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Seattle Language Academy (SLA) is a non-profit language school in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle offering both group classes and individual lessons in foreign languages and in English as a second language.
Classes and private tutoring are available in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.
Seattle Language Academy also offers instruction in Latin and Ancient Greek.
www.sealang.com   (82 words)

  
 Arabic Language
Arabic Macintosh (Institutter ved Det Historisk-Filosofiske Fakultetet, Univ. of Bergen)
In order to display Arabic characters on the program's "flashcards" it is necessary to run the program inside Arabic Windows 3.1.
The Yemen Language Center and The Yemen Center for Arab Studies
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/arabic.html   (174 words)

  
 Atlanta Language School
Conveniently located just off I-85, Atlanta Academy of Language Learning has been offering the very best language courses in the Atlanta area since 1997.
We therefore guarantee your satisfaction and success learning a new language, whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or an advanced student of the language.
We promise to meet your own unique language learning needs in an individualized, engaging, and interactive way, a way that only degreed, professionally trained and qualified language teachers can consistently provide to you as a language learner.
atlantalanguages.com   (378 words)

  
 Arabic Language Learning Resources
A growing collection of on-line language learning resources: authentic materials; language lessons; socio-cultural studies and language learning references; fonts and productivity tools.
An Enrichment Course, by The Georgetown University Arabic Department, Margaret (Omar) Nydell, Ph.D. Release Date: Spring 1996.
ARABIC-INFO is a free "bulletin board" for ANNOUNCEMENTS related to Arabic Studies (language, literature, culture, history, etc.) rather than for discussion, debate, queries or answers to queries.
members.cox.net /ctheis/language/arabic.htm   (195 words)

  
 Tactical Language and Culture Training Systems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Tactical Language and Culture Training Systems teach what to say, how to say it and when to say it in Iraqi Arabic, Pashto and Sahel French.
From the first lesson, they listen to and speak in Arabic and Pashto using headset microphones, getting immediate feedback and guidance.
They are “serious games” that combine patent-pending technologies, including computational models of language, culture and learning; artificial-intelligence-based psychological simulations that dynamically control the unscripted, autonomous behavior of the games’ animated characters; and contextual, speaker-independent speech recognition models for non-native speakers.
www.tacticallanguage.com /tacticaliraqi   (417 words)

  
 Arabic Language
Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews.
Georgetown University Department of Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics
In addition, the content of these sites does not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards, policy or endorsement of the Naval Academy or the United States Government.
www.usna.edu /Library/Language/Arabic.html   (377 words)

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