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Trials of Linguistic Restoration | ||
| JOURNAL OF THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN | ||
| Article 1, Volume 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 701-717 | ||
| Author | ||
| Zuhair G. Zahid | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Arabic language is an active, surviving, and evolving language. It has all the elements of being alive and it is one of the six global languages of the world confirmed by the Security Council. It is the oldest natural language on earth. Arabic linguists have worked hard to develop it and restore and improve whatever needed to be improved in it since early times. Mostly, these trials of restoring language took the shape of a conflict between the old and the new. Therefore, the linguists who believed in reserving the language with all its structure, spelling, and vocabulary confronted those who believed in restoring and developing movement in it because it is newly found or born. They were trails to enlarge and widen the language rage by adding new terms for the new ideas and findings in science and arts, therefore the scientific council had played their role in employing the efforts to find new terms. Other efforts were employed in the domain of translating from other languages, such as translating scientific and literary books that were needed. Their work was extended to producing new dictionaries for terms and scientific dictionaries and translating what is necessary to society. They had their efforts in restoring grammar and structure. These efforts were old in writing simplified text books for the students, in addition to modern efforts in simplifying grammar and structure for student sin books and syllabus. Efforts also were put to restore good writing and spelling in Arabic, and a mong the first names who worked in that field was Abo AL Aswad Al Du'ali (died in 69 H) who was the first to use and invent the inflection markers (dots). In modern Age, the new trails in finding new methods to restore the Arabic letters and simplified it for usage in purifying and finding the proper ways to make it easier in computer systems and while printing. | ||
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