Looking forward to her future in celebration of her International Day
The National Archives monitors the “Arabic language” in education, media and digital content
Dr. Jamal Interview speaking at the symposium.
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The National Archives, affiliated to the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, organized a symposium entitled: “The Arabic Language and the Challenges of Language Competition in the 21st Century” to celebrate the International Day of the Arabic Language. To the homeland and loyalty to its leadership, and because it is the vessel approved for preserving the memory of the homeland.
The topics of the symposium came in the form of questions posed by the translation expert at the National Archives, the director of the symposium, Dr. Seddik Jawhar, and answers that came from: the critic Dr. Jamal Maqbeh, from the Department of Arabic Language at the United Arab Emirates University, and the poet Dr. Aisha Al Shamsi, Professor of Arabic Language and Studies Emirati students at the Higher College of Technology in Al Ain.
The symposium, which was followed by a large number of interactive communication techniques, dealt with a number of themes, the most important of which are: the limits of the Arabic language, and the relationship between classical, dialects and colloquialism. The symposium showed that more than 400 million people speak Arabic around the world, which is one of six languages in UNESCO. Without siding with it because it is our language, or underestimating it because of the challenges it faces, it is deeply rooted in history, and it is developing and flourishing. And about its reality in the age of digitization and the mechanisms and policies of contemporary digital content, the symposium revealed that the digital content of the Arabic language is very small, and it is equivalent to only 3% of the other digital content, while other less prevalent languages have much more content than the percentage of Arabic digital content, so who bears the responsibility? The symposium attributed the reasons for the weakness of the Arabic content to the lack of support and funding for projects concerned with the dissemination of Arabic knowledge, and that the tools on the Internet, some of which are not Arabized, and much of the Arabic content is “just cut and pasted.”The symposium focused on the UAE's interest in the Arabic language in educational institutions, and praised the leadership's efforts to enhance the status of the Arabic language. The participants paused with the academic report launched by the UAE Ministry of Culture and Youth last December, under the guidance of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, noting that this report is an important reference for decision makers; Because of the statistics and research it contains that shed light on the Arabic language, its importance and its future, and the main themes of this report: media, space and place, the use of the Arabic language in the contemporary novel, the Arabic language and technology, the Arabic language and translation, and the use of the Arabic language in teaching science and scientific research, University students' attitudes and beliefs about the Arabic language, the Arabic language and other approaches, the Arabic language and the new worlds.
The symposium stated that 18 universities around the world, 23 researchers from Arab countries, language institutions and academies, and technology companies participated in preparing this report.
Al Arabiya is sixth in the world
On the relationship of the Arabic language with the rest of the languages in the era of globalization, and the opportunities for its prosperity, the symposium indicated that the Arabic language, which is the sixth in the world in our time, is expected to be the fourth in the world in 2025, and one of the French scientists says that there are 7000 languages in the world now, and it is expected That only 50 languages survive in the third millennium, and “Arabic” will be one of them, because of its history, breadth and spread, and because it is a global heritage. He must master the Arabic language because it is the language of science.
The symposium stressed the need to enhance the status of the Arabic language in education, media, development and production of science, in the midst of globalization that has cast its shadows on the world, noting that this is achieved by developing linguistic visions and policies, supporting creativity, and activating creative reading.
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