UN celebrates International Day of Arabic Language on Dec. 18

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  • 18-12-2021, 13:23
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    Under the title and theme of "Arabic Language and Civilized Communication", the United Nations celebrates today, Saturday, the "World Day of the Arabic Language", through many activities and celebrations.
     
    In a statement published on its website in Arabic, the United Nations said: "The theme of this year's World Arabic Language Day is "The Arabic Language and Civilized Communication", and it is a call to reaffirm the important role that the Arabic language plays in building bridges of communication between people on the cusp of culture, science, literature, and many other fields.
     
    The statement added: "The purpose of this topic is to highlight the historical role played by the Arabic language as a tool for creating and transmitting knowledge, as well as a means for advancing dialogue and laying the foundations for peace with many resources... The theme of 2021 is of great importance in societies where globalization, digitization and multilingualism are on the rise, as it recognizes the changing nature of the world and the urgent need to promote dialogue between nations and peoples.
     
     
    According to the UN, "the Arabic language is one of the pillars of the cultural diversity of humanity, and it is one of the most widely used languages in the world, as it is spoken daily by more than 400 million people from the world's population."
     
    In its statement, UN indicated that Arabic speakers are distributed between the Arab region and many other neighboring regions such as "Turkey, Chad, Mali, Senegal, and Eritrea", as "Arabic is of paramount importance to Muslims, as it is a sacred language (the language of the Qur'an), and prayer (and other acts of worship) are not performed in Islam is only by mastering some of its words, and Arabic is also a major ritual language in a number of Christian churches in the Arab region, where many of the most important Jewish religious and intellectual works in the Middle Ages were written.