His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, Supreme Chair of the Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah, paid tribute to the Arabic language on its global day which falls on the 18th of December, announcing the launch of the first lexical editing of the historical lexicon of the Arabic language which is striving to achieve More than 300 scientists, professors and researchers across the Arab world next year.
This came in his speech delivered today to attend the ceremony honoring the winners of the Sharjah ALECSO Prize for Linguistic and Lexical Studies at its third session, and the opening ceremony of the new headquarters of the Educational Center for the Arabic Language for the Gulf States in Sharjah, coinciding with the celebrations of the International Day of the Arabic Language.
His Highness said, “In the beginning, this is a good and blessed greeting, which I raise to the Arabic language on its joyous international day, praying to the generous God to provide her with protectors to defend her lair and raise her flag with a high whisk, and return her to reality in a beautiful response.”
His Highness, the Supreme President of the Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah, affirmed that “whoever abandons his language lives the rootstock of his roots, disconnected from brevity with his family and clan, cut off from the relationship with his nation’s past and present, history will speak to him even after a while, there is no doubt that the successful successor is the one who bites the His language is influential, he learns it and is keen to use it, and he strives to preserve it because it carries his history and the memory of his nation. ”
His Highness presented a gospel to all Arabs and to the people of the Arabic language in particular, saying: “On the International Day of the Arabic Language, we cannot afford to put in your hands a gospel that we have been waiting for together for many years, as we promised you last year and on this day, that the lexical editing of the historical dictionary of the Arabic language It will start during the year 2019, so here we first announce to you that in this moment that I stand in your hands, more than 300 scientists, professors and researchers strive throughout the Arab world, working with dedication and sincerity in editing in the long-awaited dictionary, and I see it soon, God willing and reconciled, and this The first work of sincere glory of the sons of the Arabs We promise you that we will meet next year, God willing, and on this day, to launch a number of parts from the historical dictionary of the Arabic language, which is the project for all Arabs, under the umbrella of the Union of Arab Councils in Cairo ».