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The Arabiclanguage (اللغة العربية al-luġah al-ʿarabiyyah), or simply Arabic (عربي ʿarabī), is the largest member of the family of Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic.
Arabic is a major source of vocabulary for languages as diverse as Berber, Kurdish, Persian, Swahili, Urdu, Hindi (especially the spoken variety), Turkish, Malay, and Indonesian, as well as other languages in countries where these languages are spoken.
While Arabic is strongly associated with Islam (and is the language of salah, prayer), it is also spoken by Arab Christians, Mizrahi Jews, and smaller sects such as Iraqi Mandaeans.
The future of the Arabiclanguage engages the attention of a host of linguists, thinkers, men of letters, authors and researchers concerned with the development of thoughts, language, literature and cultural life in general within the Arab-Islamic world.
No researcher working on the process of language evolution contests or questions the validity of this rule, which should be adopted in assessing the situation of the Arabiclanguage in the present era, and in understanding the retrogression, weakness and problems of the Arabiclanguage.
The keen interest taken in redressing language problems and issues, to help reverse the disaffection of language by large groups of its speakers, is part and parcel of the core interest in the civilizational edification of the Islamic Ummah.
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