The sociolinguistic situation of Arabic in the contemporary world

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Currently, Arabic is the official language of 22 countries around the world. Among these 22 countries, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Omar, Qatar, Syria and Yemen are located in Asia, while Algeria, Chad, the Comores, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan, Tunisia and Djibouti are in Africa. Arabic is also … Leer más

Erasmus of Rotterdam and Christian Humanism: the Novum Instrumentum

If the new humanists beyond the Alps had focused only on the refined classicism that had characterized the last great Italian representatives, they would have remained obscure and marginal figures. They needed to give the movement a new impetus and demonstrate that its scope was much broader than merely literary. It is in this context … Leer más

The Tower of Babel and the birth of multilingualism

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The Tower of Babel is a universally known construction of Antiquity, mainly due to its presence in Genesis. The creation of the biblical myth that surrounds this monument has its origin in the 6th century B.C., when a good part of the Hebrew inhabitants of the Kingdom of Judah were deported to Mesopotamia –after the … Leer más

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