Is Arabic a Social Construct?
<p>Among the world’s great languages, perhaps none punches below its weight like Arabic. It is the mother tongue of 350 million people, and has a daily presence in the spiritual lives of a billion more; it is the official language of 26 countries, and one of the six of the United Nations.</p>
<p>Yet, in spite of an uptick in interest in the 2000s, the driver of which was in any case less than wholesome, Arabic is pretty insignificant outside of the Arab and Muslim worlds. In Britain, it is less studied than Italian. Conversely, Spain translates more books into Spanish each year than Arabs have translated into Arabic since the 9th Century.</p>
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