Today is United Nations Arabic Language Day!
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00:00Most of the people in UAE especially use some words, actually they are thinking these words
00:10are English, but actually these words are Arabic words.
00:14For instance, you'll find that the word Qutun, it's originally an Arabic word.
00:18If you say Admiral, it's actually Amir in the Arabic language, it's an Arabic word.
00:24If you take the word Sugar, it's Sukkar, it's an Arabic word.
00:27Not only actually it's an English language, even in Spanish, in French, in Italian, all
00:33the languages you'll find some words, actually it's originally Arabic language, it's the
00:37oldest semantic language.
00:40It's a language that is more than 1,500 years old.
00:44When you speak about a language with more than 422 million persons all over the world,
00:52this is just the speakers.
00:54But actually who is using the Arabic language is more than one million, because you know
00:59that the Quran, which is a religious book of the Muslims actually, it's an Arabic language,
01:05and of course you have more than one million all over the world who are Muslims, and of
01:10course they read the Quran.
01:13We are living right now, and everybody here, multicultural country, everybody speaks different
01:20languages.
01:21In the schools, actually they are teaching the standard Arabic for the students.
01:26In the mass media, we are using our Arabic Fusha also.
01:32We are going always to sustain and maintain the Arabic language in different ways, and
01:37one of them in the education field.
01:40And of course we have the writers, and we have the Arabic poem, and you can see that
01:48in the pre-Islamic era, we have still poem, till this moment we learn it.
01:55So this language is very strong, it's not easy to disappear suddenly or to get influenced
02:03easily.
02:05And by the way, the Arabic language is the only language, during all the history, there
02:09is no change on it.
02:12For instance, if you check the European languages, they come originally from Latin.
02:17Right now, who speaks Latin?
02:19Nobody speaks Latin.
02:20Even these languages, you will find that they have a lot of changes all over the years.
02:25Except the Arabic language, it's the same.
02:29No changes happened to it at all.
02:32Otherwise, even if we have new or modern terminologies, we have linguistics who try to put the exact
02:40and the proper Arabic translation for the new world in the modern life.