INCEPTION AND CLASSIFICATION
Before Arabic rised there were several different languages in the Middle East. Neighboring tribes could use a completely different language! From around 2000 B.C.E. Akkadian, or Assyro-Babylonian, began to mark its dominance. It was spoken only, and the Sumerian language was still used in writing, but later, the Akkadian language began to split and the Assyrian language and the Babylonian language arose. Babylonian got better accepted, and it spread very quickly, and already in the 9th century BCE became the lingua franca.
At the same time, the Middle East is aramenizing. In the 7th century BC Aramaic becomes the dominant language, which continued until the 7th century CE, when the Arabic language began to dominate. Arabic itself reached its final form in the 7th-8th centuries AD. It developed very quickly. The Arabic script replaced the complex writing systems of the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Akkadians.
Aramaic gave rise to many alphabets – Nabataean, Palmyreni, Syrian, Hebrew and Arabic
Arabic belongs to the group of Semitic languages. This group includes languages that functioned in former Mesopotamia. Nowadays, it is included in this language group along with Hebrew.
WHERE PEOPLE SPEAK ARABIC?
It is present in some Asian and African countries. These are
- Saudi Arabia
- Tunisia
- Egypt
- Syria
- Morocco
- Jordan
- Mauritania
- Western Sahara
- United Arab Emirates
- Libya
- Iraq
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- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Palestinian Authority
- Sudan
- Algeria
- Yemen
- Oman
- Bahrain
Additionally, it is still present in Eritrea and the Comoros Islands.
ARABIC IN THE WORLD
Currently, it is spoken by nearly 300 million people around the world. Despite the small number of its speakers, it is one of the five languages of the United Nations General Assembly.
