Sunday 24 February 2013

THE UK AS A DIVERSE SOCIETY "ARABIC LANGUAGE "


The Arabic language is the official language of these countries

1. Saudi Arabia

2. The United Arab Emirates

3. Yemen

4. Oman

5. Kuwait

6. Bahrain

7. Qatar

8. Iraq

9. Lebanon

10. Syria

11. Jordan

12. Egypt

13. Mauritania

14. Sudan

15. Libya

16. Tunisia

17. Algeria

18. Morocco

The Arabic is spoken by the range of 360 million people, it’s not only a language for countries it’s also a language of religion for millions of people in other countries that also include parkistians and the Bangladesh who lives in the uk.

      Talking about the speakers of Arabic in the united kingdom, since there are different countries that speakers the Arabic language, they are mostly spread out in numbers of groups. There has been a long establishment of communities of Arabic speakers in the yememi in Birmingham, Newcastle, Cardiff, Moroccans in the north Kensington and Ladbroke Grove areas of London.

       In the oil-boom of the 1970s, large numbers of Arabs arrived from the Gulf and established businesses of different kinds in the UK; they also occupied and lived in some of the rich areas of London. Of late, political confusion in Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine has given rise to growing numbers of refugees. However there is no given national figures are available, a survey of    London schoolchildren conducted in 2000 showed that Arabic was the seventh most commonly spoken language in the capital, used by 1.23 per cent of the school population.

   In addition the newspaper written in Arabic, also known as the independent Arabic language newspaper Al Hayat is printed in London with worldwide morning –of – publication supply. However an important cultural centre which  in Westbourne Grove known as the KUFA GALLERY is used to promote the Arabic arts both in written,  performance and visual form.

 

 

 

 

Reference

BBC(march 2007)Arabic today: available : http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual/arabic.shtml#A(Accessed; 24 feb 2013)

 

 

 

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