What is the history of the Arabic Language?

Arabic is ranked among the top six of the world’s major languages. As the language of the Qur’an, the holy book of Islam, it is also widely used throughout the Muslim world. It belongs to the Semitic group of languages which also includes Hebrew and Amharic, the main language of Ethiopia. The Arabic language is one of the Semitic languages. Specialists in the science of comparative languages believe that the Arabic language is nearest to the mother language from which all Semitic languages emanated. This preservation of Arabic is due to Arabs’ perpetual presence in their countries, the rarity of immigrants and newcomers among them, weakness of relations between Arabs and other nations, and lack of intermarriage and social relations with other nations. There is disagreement among researchers in the science of comparative languages concerning who was the first to speak the Arabic language. Arabic has also borrowed words from many languages, including Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit in early centuries, and contemporary European languages in modern times. The influence of Arabic has been most important in Islamic countries. Arabic is a major source of vocabulary for languages such as Spanish, Sindhi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Portuguese, Berber, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Swahili, Urdu, Hindustani, Turkish, Malay, Rohingya, Bengali, Tagalog, and Indonesian, as well as other languages in countries where these languages are spoken.

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