The document provides an introduction to the Arabic language. It states that Arabic is spoken by over 300 million people worldwide and is the official language of 22 Middle Eastern and North African countries. Arabic is considered an old language at around 1,500 years old. For over 1,000 years from the 7th century to the 19th/20th centuries, Arabic was the dominant language of scholarship and the language that the greatest works of many academic subjects were written in. Arabic is also the language of the Quran. The document notes that Arabic is one of the Semitic languages, along with Babylonian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Himyaritic, Phoenician, Ethiopian, and Arabic itself.

1. KARKKILA
TYÖVÄENOPISTO
Arabian kurssi
Hayder Mezher Yaqoob Aljouranj , 2016- Finland

2. ARABIC LANGUAGE

3. INTRUDOCTION
Human beings can communicate with each other. We are able to exchange knowledge,
beliefs, opinions, wishes, threats, commands, thanks, promises, declarations, feelings – only
our imagination sets limits. We can laugh to express amusement, happiness, or disrespect, we
can smile to express amusement, pleasure, approval, or bitter feelings, we can shriek to
express anger, excitement, or fear, we can clench our fists to express determination, anger or
a threat, we can raise our eyebrows to express surprise or disapproval, and so on, but our
system of communication before anything else is language.

4. WHAT IS LANGUAGE?
 t it is a system of communication based upon words and the combination of
words in to sentences. and communication by means of language may be
referred to as linguistic.
 According to de suassure (language) divides both the mass of concept and the
mass of sound at the same time that signs (words) begin to exist.
 Chomsky say we are born with a long list of concepts, which correspond to the
words prior to any experience.
 Linguistics is “the study of language as a system of human communication”

5. ABOUT ARABIC LANGUAGE
Over 300 million people around the world today speak Arabic as their
first language and today we are going to find out a little more about
the culture and history that unite these millions of people. According to
UNESCO, there are currently 22 countries in the Middle East and North
Africa where Arabic is an official language, and it is these countries that
are considered part of the Arab world.
At about 1,500 years old, Arabic also happens to be a very old language.

6. ABOUT ARABIC LANGUAGE
It was the language of scholarship throughout the rule of the Islamic empires a period of well over
1,000 years from the 7th century right down to the 19th and even 20th. The greatest books of medicine,
geology, law, philosophy, and basically any subject you can imagine were all written in the finest
Arabic.
Arabic is also the language of the Qur’an (the Islamic holy book). It doesn’t matter what your beliefs
are.
it is on of Semitic languages, as are:
- Babilliyyah wal Ashiriyyah (Babylonian and Assyrian)
- al-Ibraniyyah (Hebrew)
- al-Himyariyyah (Himyaritic)
- al-Aramiyyah (Phoenician)
- al-Finiqiyyah (Phoenician)
- al-Habbashiyyah (Ethiopian)
- al-Arabiyyah (Arabic)