Kazakh Gumilyov Eurasian National University Celebrates World Arabic Language Day

ASTANA – The Gumilyov Eurasian Nationwide College (ENU) hosted a cultural occasion to mark the World Arabic Language Day on Dec. 7.

The contributors of the cultural occasion to have fun the World Arabic Language Day.

The occasion was organized by the ENU Division of Oriental Research and the Embassy of Egypt in Kazakhstan.

“Right this moment, in Kazakhstan, we had a possibility to have fun the richness and world significance of the Arabic language, which is among the most generally spoken languages with over 700 million audio system everywhere in the world,” Ambassador of Morocco to Kazakhstan Mohammed Rachid Maaninou advised The Astana Occasions. “Arabic language has performed a catalytic function in tradition, science and the humanities all through historical past and is among the six official languages within the United Nations.”

Samal Tuleubaeva, head of the ENU Division of Oriental Research, and Mohammed Rachid Maaninou, Ambassador of Morocco to Kazakhstan

Ambassador Maaninou mentioned the scholars who be taught Arabic will develop the bilateral and multilateral relationships between Kazakhstan and the Arab world, “because the language is a driving power for connecting societies and communities collectively.”

Dr. Montasyr Abuzeid, Ambassador of the State of Palestine, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, additionally famous the significance of the Arab language.

“The Arabic language has performed a key function within the building of many civilizations that began with phrases declared in a doc and changed into actual initiatives on the bottom. The flexibility to talk Arabic is a crucial part of cultural id… In 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Arabic because the world’s fourth most helpful enterprise language. In 2013, the British Council revealed an in depth report on essentially the most spoken languages in the UK known as Languages of the Future. As for essentially the most worthwhile languages in Britain, Arabic is ranked second by the group,” mentioned Ambassador Abuzeid.

The ambassador emphasised that Arabic is among the richest languages by way of language materials. “For instance, Ibn Manzur’s thirteenth-century Lisan al-Arab dictionary incorporates greater than 80,000 lexical gadgets, whereas in English, Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, who was one of many first to develop an eighteenth-century English dictionary, incorporates 42,000 phrases,” he added. 

Heads and senior members of diplomatic missions of 12 Arab nations (Palestine – Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Libya, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq), Indonesia, and South Africa took half within the occasion.

As a part of the occasion, the Moroccan Embassy organized a standard tea ceremony with sweets and donated books of Moroccan students.

It ought to be famous that an Arabic research room was opened at ENU with the help of the embassies of the Arab nations in 2015. Fifty college students examine Arabic as the primary and second overseas language on the college.

World Arabic Language Day has been celebrated on Dec. 18 since 2012. On today, the Common Meeting of the United Nations adopted Arabic because the sixth official language of the Group in 1973.