Rieko Kawabata, with additional reporting from Pakinam Amer Researchers in Arab institutions have joined the global effort to understand, monitor, test and control the spread of COVID-19. Some sounds are really different from other languages, too, and you may need some time to get used to them.Arab institutions ramp up COVID-19 research As a student of Arabic, you will need to already know a word or its family to be able to understand it (which means you will have a lot of studying to do). Indeed, you won't even find words which look like the ones in your native language to help you out. What's quite difficult is the vocabulary. However, once you master the alphabet, the writing and pronunciation, you will see that the language's structure follows a fairly logical pattern. To create a word, you add vowels and non-root consonants.Īrabic may seem to be a difficult language to master when you see Arabic script. Roots are a sequence of three consonants related to one concept. Keep in mind that you will read from right to left.Īrabic words from the same family have common roots. Once you master the alphabet, it shouldn’t be too hard for you to read Arabic. The Arabic alphabet is composed of 28 consonants and three vowels. It is also used in books, media and mosques.
This language is spoken by the majority of people in large cities, and it is also used at international meetings and conferences conducted in Arabic. These dialects are so different that a Maghrebi Arabic speaker might have problems understanding a Gulf Arabic speaker.Īs a foreigner in Dubai, you should focus on Modern Standard Arabic ( فصحى, pronounced fuṣḥā). The four main kinds of dialects are Maghrebi Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Gulf Arabic and Levantine Arabic. Unfortunately, aside from the Middle East, North Africa, and specialised universities, Arabic is taught in schools in only a few countries as a foreign language.ĭepending on the country, you will encounter different Arabic dialects. The number of Arabic speakers is continually growing throughout the world. However, it has an increasing influence on Islamic countries whose residents borrow a lot of vocabulary from Arabic.
Even if it is often associated with Islam, most Muslims do not speak Arabic. It is also an official language of organisations such as the United Nations.Īrabic belongs to the Semitic group of languages and is the language of the Qur’an (the Islamic Holy book). Arabic is an official language of 22 states, and it is widely spoken throughout the world.
Spoken since the 2 nd century CE, Arabic is one of the oldest existing languages in the world.
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