World Arabic Day
Marking the World Arabic Day on December 18 of every year, the date on which the UN General Assembly designated Arabic as the sixth official language of the United Nations and it becomes a UN official language.
The World Arabic Day’s main purpose of celebrating is to increase awareness about the cultural and social treasures of the Arabic language and gives an opportunity to discover more about the secrets of the language and its contribution to human civilization and culture. Besides, encouraging dialogue and communications among the member states United Nations member states.
Dr. Hussien Juma’a ,Chairman of The Arab Writers Union, made it clear that Arabic is the mother tongue for more than 300 million persons.
It is a heritage –link language with a deep-rooted culture .Hence,that is why the United Nations define Dec.18th ,1973 as World Arabic Day and consequently the Arabic language became the sixth international official language. All those who speak Arabic should be faithful to it and try to use all their possible skills to speak good and accurate Arabic at all international forums in general and the UN –affiliated organizations in particular..
“A lot of people ignore the great value of Arabic language by using mixture of various languages, especially English, French and Spanish in their works which affect badly on the originality of Arabic.” Dr. Juma’a concluded.
Maysa Wassouf