Privileges Regarding Arabic

Arabic designated as the sixth official language besides Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish in 1974 by the United Nations (UN). Although its use in today's less popular with English, but in fact Arabic is the language that the user first reaches the most extensive areas on earth.

Arabic language included in the Semitic language family, which flourished in the Mediterranean Gulf region, especially in the vicinity of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, and coastal areas of West Asia, among others, crossing the country Syria, Lebanon, Palestine. According to language experts and Eastern Cultures at the University of Washington said the Arabian Peninsula became the cradle of the Proto-Semitic language. However, many of them support the Arabic language was born in East Africa region around Somalia or Ethiopia. This conclusion was supported by the facts of the East African countries is dominated by Arabic as the official language.

Linguistic experts from Yale University, Benjamin Lee Whorf and his teacher Edward Sapir hypothesis known as "linguistic relativity". Based on his research, they found that there is a relationship between language, ways of thinking, and behavior. That is because the purpose languages ​​is not merely a communication tool, but also become a tool for someone to think and act. Characteristics of the language of a nation, directing how they think and describe the reality of life. Not only that, Muslim scholars also developed civilization. History records a large role arabic language as a means of knowledge transfer. And even the Muslim scientists also developed his own knowledge of science. the world recognize the science of algebra, chemistry, geology, trigonometry ball is part of Muslim scholars contributed to world civilization. Science written in Arabic which they then taught to many other nations of different languages.