Why do Japanese people to learn Arabic - Arab Islamic Institute
The importance of Arabic learning
In this series, why Arabic (especially, Fusuha of regular Arabic), or learn, or why non-Arabs (in particular, Japanese) Do learn the Arabic university, junior college, etc. NHK educational program, basic I would like to clarify the reason.
Linguistic, Arabic belongs to the Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages. Its name is're derived from the son Shem of the Prophet Noah (Old Testament of Noah, peace be upon him). Semitic is very old, but the part was already a dead language, there is also a language that is being used as Arabic until today. Its Semitic, Akkadian, which divided into two major dialects of Assyrian and Babylonian language, Kanaan language, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Hebrew, Phoenician language, Syriac, Manda language, Ethiopic (Geezu dialect), South Arabia there is such as Main language and mackerel language.
The main function of any language is a means of communication. In addition, as in the writings of Applied Linguistics, the communication between the members of the human groups that speak the same words or become among the human population.