Tag: Arabic

You are a false beginner if you have ever studied a language at any point in time, have some linguistic knowledge, but cannot use the language. I recently published a post detailing an ever increasing situation holding UK Muslims back from enriching their lives learning Arabic (I sugges...

Peace, a holistic state of well-being encompassing inner serenity, harmony with others, and connection to the Divine. It echoes in the greeting “As-salamu alaykum,” a wish for peace upon you, whispered like a gentle breeze carrying blessings. Oneness, the fundamental truth of Islam &m...

Introduction The Arab world is home to some of the richest countries in the world due to their abundant oil and gas reserves. In 2024, most Arab economies continue to rely heavily on income generated from oil and gas exports which constitute the bulk of their national incomes. However, efforts are ...

So, play may be the ultimate social superpower! But with everyone glued to screens these days, are the brain connections we’re building even useful in the real world? Let’s find out! Buckle up for a journey to rediscover the awesome world of traditional Arabic games! Calling All Ga...

It’s been five years since I moved away from my home country of Syria. While this journey was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done, it has helped me to find my true self more than I ever could have imagined. Living abroad involves joys and struggles that can only be experienced fir...

Around 30,000,000 people speak Iraqi Arabic as their native language, and most of the remaining 7,000,000 people in Iraq speak it as a second language. In spite of this, there are few resources devoted to the language — especially relative to Levantine Arabic and Egyptian Arabic, its more popu...

Outside of my day job as a Security Engineer, I have been learning Arabic with Arabica Institute for a few years. Classes are once a week and there is a clear emphasis on learning to speak and understand the language rather than focusing on grammar rules. This makes sense to me because as ...

Beginnings are hard. I am not only referring to the difficulty of starting this article, but also to the long months, if not years, of inner battles that lead me to the moment of writing these first words. I love music. I love writing. Both have brought me joy for years, but I somehow never came to ...

Our objective is to precisely separate Arabic sentences from text, steering clear of errors like splitting at a dot in a link or within abbreviations like ‘.د’ The provided code strives to construct a specialized tool using the NLTK library to accurately divide Arabic text into sentence...

Creating a Pdf to save an invoice , letter , CV ..etc is now one of the most important things in the world of programming. For example : You are creating a system and one of the requirements is to produce a pdf that will be printable and it will contain information related to a single bill, will...

Natural language processing (NLP) is not a new discipline; its roots date back to the 1600s when philosophers such as Descartes and Leibniz proposed theoretical codes for language. In the past decade, the results of this long history have led to the integration of NLP into our own homes, in the form...

Not too long ago, I was sitting in a bustling roadside cafe on the way to the Sahara Desert, inhaling the exotic aromas of couscous and mint tea, and listening to the chatter of a dozen or so Moroccan families enjoying a meal together. A few months prior to this trip Arabic couldn’t have sound...

”It is a remarkable fact that, with few exceptions, most Muslim scholars both in the religious and intellectual sciences have been non-Arabs… Thus the founders of grammar were Sibawaih, and after him al-Farisi and al- Zajjaj. All of them were of Iranian descent. They were brought up in ...

In Arabic, vowels are called “7arakaat”; movements. Vowels allow us to pronounce, articulate. Without vowels, there is no articulation, no movement. https://anchor.fm/thouria-benferhat 1- In Arabic, there are three short vowels and three long vowels. The three short vowels are (...

Lughatuna is the best online dictionary for Arabic dialects. Their Levantine dictionary contains plenty of examples from Palestinian varieties, although it’s all mixed in with Jordanian, Syrian, and Lebanese. Of course, the varieties are close enough that it’s usually still helpful ...

This project by Omdena is about Building Open Source NLP Libraries & Tools for the Arabic Language as Arabic is the 5th most spoken language in the world and there are several challenges that can be found in Arabic like complicated grammar and having several dialects. So t...