Learning Arabic With Jabor

History of Arabic Language:

 

 

 

The Arabic language has changed from Nabatean Script, since the 4th Century AD. It was a mixture Araic, Syriac and Greek scriptures that dates back from 512 AD. During the 7th Century, dots and a few extra alphabets were added in the Arabic language in order to avoid having words without definitons. The vowel diacritics were introducted during the 7th Century in order for Muslims to read the Quran without mistakes (3). Today, Arabic is a language that is spoken by 250 million people around the world, it's the 5th most spoken language in the world. 

 

There are two main types of written Arabic:

 

- Classical Arabic: it's the language of Quran and classical Arabic literature. It's different from modern standard Arabic, by vocabulary, and style of writing. Classical Arabic has inspired Arabic calligraphy, by many Arab artists, writing texts from the Quran. All Muslims are expected to recite the Qur'an in the original language, however many non-arabic Muslim speakers rely on translations in order to understand the text (1).

 

- Modern Standard Arabic (The One we are learning in this Website): the main language of the Arabic-speaking world which is understood by all Arabic speakers (2). It is the language that is being used in Arabic TV Channels, lectures, plays, books etc. We are not learning a specific Arabic dialect becuase the letters could get a little bit confuzing and not everyone would understand it.