The Arab world celebrates the 18th of December every year, the International Day of the Arabic Language, and it was decided to celebrate the Arabic language on December 18, as it was the day when General Assembly Resolution No. 3190 was issued in 1973, whereby the General Assembly decided to enter the Arabic language into the official and working languages of the United Nations .
The slogan "Arabic Language and Artificial Intelligence" was chosen for this year's celebration.
On International Arabic Language Day, here are 9 surprising facts about her:
1- One of the oldest Semitic languages, and one of the most widespread languages in the world.
2- It is spoken by more than 422 million people
3- It is called “the language of the adversity” because it is the only one that contains the letter “aad” within its letters.
4- Among the four most used languages on the Internet.
5- The Arabic alphabet has 28 essential characters.
6- The number of Arabic vocabulary without repetition reached over 12 million words.
7- The Arabic language was written at the beginning without dotting or movements, and the system of movements was developed in the seventh century AD, while the system of dotting was adopted in the eighth century.
8- The Maltese language is derived from the Arabic language.
9- The age of the Arabic language is at least 1700 years.
This event was celebrated by activists on Twitter, and here is a bouquet of tweets in which the tweets expressed their admiration and pride in the Arabic language: “The tongue is unable to describe you my language ... in you of miracles what the nations failed to do,” and another said, “My language is proud of my love of .. They are beauty and separated by discernment "
Another added: "Our language is documented by narrators, one day covered the simple afternoon with the pride of its speakers ... so should we return it."
And he stated in another tweet: "The International Day of the Arabic Language, all days celebrate and sing a ritual of your beauty, the sweetness of your pronunciation, and a delicate uniqueness with which it became a title and symbol for you,
Myself does not lose sight of your passion about Hula, and every year your love is engraved in my heart, preserved between my ribs. "
Other Twitter followers participated in the wonders of the Arabic language, as one of the tweeters posted a poetic house that you do not need to move your tongue as a father when reading it:
It says: "My father is delusional and they are my beloved ones ... They are worried about them and they are delusional."
While others pointed to the richness of the Arabic language with vocabulary that no other language would precede in this field, and one of the tweeters shared the many vocabulary of the word “morning” in the Arabic language: “shining, morning, early, early, morning, morning, morning, dawn, dawn, dawn, puddle Furqan.
Others added a series of the shortest meaningful words in the Arabic language and these are the verbs of the matter: "Q, Z, E, N, T, D, R, U, K, L".