Factors of survival and continuity of human languages (Arabic language as a model)

Abstract

Human languages are not innate, but rather an acquired skill, this means that a language can be displaced, abandoned or extinct. The research problem responds to this hypothesis and reveals its strengths through reality, history, analysis of its structure and the circumstances of its emergence and spread, leading to a hypothesis to strengthen it and revive what has disappeared. It follows an integrative approach that describes, analyzes and extrapolates to reach the research objectives that present evidence of the strength of the Arabic language, the factors for its survival and continuation, and ways to develop and preserve it in light of the challenges it faces. Among the results that the research seeks to confirm, is the survival and continuation of the Arabic language based on the external and internal factors available to it. You can hardly find a language whose poetry and prose and all the products of the minds of its owners for more than a thousand years can be read. As you find in the Arabic language, schoolchildren and others can read the poetry of Al-Nabigha, Imru’ Al-Qais, and other poets of the pre-Islamic era and who came after them in the manner of performance in which the poets recited their poems. One of the realistic evidences is the control of classical Arabic over its dialects. Despite the many and different dialects none of them has turned into a language that competes with it or displaces it from the arena. Children and adults in twenty-two Arab countries can understand the classical language without difficulty when they hear it. All that remains is an ambitious project to popularize the talk in Arabic, as the research presents in its hypothesis.