Arabic language and the challenges of the digital age
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d. Abdul Latif Hanachi
Arabic language is considered One of the most prevalent living languages in the world, spoken by more than four hundred and twenty-two million people, and taught formally and informally in most Muslim countries in the continents of Africa and Asia, but the language of the Qur'an know different challenges such as the retreat use when the Arabs themselves for the benefit of both English and French, and especially how it would deal with Modern technology at the level of the Internet.
In this regard, "said director of research and strategy in the" Microsoft "recently that the use of Arabic was not much use Because of the way the Internet is evolving. While the growing use of the Web in the Arab world since 2000, a faster pace than anywhere else in the world and with reduced costs Contact the World Wide Web is still sub-standard content and advertising expenditure is still small.
as it appears the contribution of the Arabic content is less than one per cent of the total World although Arabic speakers make up five per cent of the world's population, in addition to the number of words in Arabic Portal for Wikipedia on the Internet for example, Is lower than in the Catalan site.
In fact, the problem is not special in Arabic, the emerging scientific concepts may be understood in more than fifty per day. Known Many of the major difficulties and clear in this area, for example, France continued to suffer from a lack of a growing sector in the strict technical university teaching to the resort researchers constantly To foreign terms despite the efforts of dozens of competent bodies of the effort in this area ...
and one of the scientific studies indicate that the Arab engagement in the information age seems to Limited, with none of the over one billion users of the web only 550 thousand subscribers is Arabic and the Arabic language occupies a fraction under the rubble of a huge amount of web pages, between About 8 billion pages of English occupies 82 per cent in the time that occupies the rest of the languages of 18 per cent, a situation that clearly reflect the reality and Information for the benefit of the Fifty English language which will necessarily cultures "vulnerable electronically", and displays strong waves to her family out of the maze of belonging and identity conflict ...
indicate some Data related to the share of intellectual production in Arabic available does not exceed one and a half percent of the global intellectual production publication on the "WAP" in the time A world of the Internet an essential input to the world of knowledge and a source and a generator of knowledge, producer and distributor, and a store of information is indispensable ...
have been all of these issues and problems The subject of a symposium held recently, Tamimi Foundation for scientific research and information in Tunisia in partnership with the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Arab world at the University of Durham AED British, under the The title "Arabic language and the challenges of modern technology at the level of the Internet." The researchers from several Arab countries: Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Algeria, Syria, Qatar, Morocco, the maximum, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, and other foreign: France, Britain, Russia, Serbia .. During the eight meetings of the 22 scientific intervention on topics related to the subject, Lecturers from which the whole of the importance of historical and cultural language, which is configured by Arab and a key mediator for the transfer of mobile cultural Arab - Islamic richest human Battaouath property for several centuries.
interventions also addressed some of the difficulties and constraints faced by the Arabic language in this area, so competition cultures, languages and systems Other information, and the significant rise in the number of science and applied technologies globalized, and the growth of the terminology associated with these sciences and technologies which are often Do not find her interviews in the Arabic language has also been research on issues of ideological link in Kalazdwagep "Arab / Amazigh, Arabic / Kurdish, Classical / vernacular, Arabic / French, Arabic / English ", and localization, and change the Arabic alphabet to write Latin, and incomplete infrastructure, telecommunication, and computer and show .. All in the form of obstacles facing the user at the level of the Arab broadcasting, research or communication.
was also discussed issues related to computerization and digitization of the Arabic language that treatment Mechanism for natural language and its applications, and automatic indexing, machine translation, and scanning OCR, and the search engines and the weakness of DAC ..
and important issues, with Serious impacts on the Arabic language, which speakers addressed what they called the "challenge of the new communicative" The primary issue in the quality of the writing that is imposed by the need To connect through social websites. With the exception of official and academic sites that use the Arabic language eloquence, resort, many individuals and many Social strata to the easiest ways to deliver their messages, using spoken language - and structurally variant spelling and grammar of the language of eloquence - or to use a hybrid language of Arabic Latin letters as well as images, figures and other forms of bizarre and alien ..
Speakers also addressed and discussed one of the most important issues that look like one of the characteristics of the Global South A lack of legislation on copyright and punctuation and the lack of application of the legislature and its negative impacts on the various creative individuals and the sector as a whole.
Participants also identified and analyzed some of the possibilities and mechanisms to overcome gaps in the Arabic language, from the need to increase the competitive potential through the strengthening of Arab scientific background, And through a science and applications and their integration into the cognitive map of the region, and face the lexical gap, including Arab crisis encyclopedias, encyclopedias on the Internet, Resolving issues of telecommunication infrastructure and computer, and digitization of the Arabic language problems and issues of software, indexing, translation, robotics, and scanning OCR, and motors Find, domain names, and the creation of Arab industry of digital content through the strengthening of infrastructure of information and telecommunication needs of the region and the imposition of the hardware manufacturers And software, to suit the linguistic and cultural specificities of Arab and meet the shortfall in the frameworks are specialized in content production, and scarcity of resources, as well as the shortfall In cooperation between Arab countries .. And the establishment of Arab rule digital three-dimensional shape of the three gates: Gate of Education Digital Arabic, and gateway infrastructure, digital Arabic The digital library, and the gate drive translation of modern Arabic; so as to avoid double-double of the holders of the Arabic language, which will only be achieved through reform of education and review Beidagojith curricula and, in addition to the need to accelerate the Arab states to enact legislation binding language and linguistic development of schemes to give priority to the Arabic language as the language of identity, Civilization and development and national security.
In parallel to this comes the necessity of regulating the relations of the Arabic language is also available in other living and to address the challenge of the new communicative through the understanding of the phenomenon New language of the Internet, and the absorption of modernist aspects and to avoid its negative aspects so as not to replace the new language Bnoaqsa in the future replace the written form of Arabic eloquence ...
is no doubt that pride in the national language, defend and develop an intuitive look at the issue of nations. The modern Arab renaissance in one of the most important facets and implications of linguistic renaissance Basically, sought to develop the Arabic language and updated to keep pace with the times and repel the challenges faced by that time, more than one level, is that the emergence of the "state of Arab independence," have contributed to Largely in the decline of the language and "Tklsha" and limit their spread as a result of the lack of institutions with a foster efficient and effective safeguard the national language, and working to develop and enrich them.
French language, for example, which does not exceed Speakers by 300 million people, including the population of France, you find the care and protection as you do not find other language in the world. Since 1794 Any since the era of the French Revolution made by law for the dissemination of French language, and within what came in this law, "that French is the French nation." The text of Article III That: "starting from the date of July" July "in 1794 to prevent each employee or writer or official signing of the resolution or document in a language other gallimaufry, but all the contrary expelled from the service and imprisoned for six Months ".
The French State on the occasion of issuing two-hundredth anniversary of" 1994 "for the issuance of that law, a new law to protect the French language" Toubon Law ", in relation to the Minister of Culture, which Was behind its issuance, and took applied rigorously and relentlessly. There are also other laws in France required the French media, audio and video without the adoption of the French language Other only in certain limits, both for the public programs or films or documentaries different. One manifestation of France's keenness on the language and culture sent to the OAS Speaking in French in 1970 ..
In this context, and from that the Arabic language are the basis for Arab culture and founded on, and from the fact that "her case is the issue of security of the Arab nationalist" Basically, The participants at the seminar that all relevant institutions to address the situation of the Arabic language and decision-making to preserve and develop, use and achieve comprehensive, and the implantation of Cherish it and make it at the forefront of national concerns, national, and expressed the hope that interested in the upcoming summit of Arab cultural in this matter and taking its rightful place ...
To This confirmed Dr. Abdul Jalil al-Tamimi, that "everyone is invited to draft the language of advancement in the digital age, by Arab and a reality check and verbal interaction With various forms of expression and enrichment of the new technical content and how to address the realities of machine translation, adaptation, invention and the derivation of terms provided to us by international laboratories Successively on a daily basis "..
Perhaps one of the many qualities that are characterized by Tamimi Foundation for Scientific Research, Information and dean, the world is persistent, Mr. Jalil is the coupling has to say Indeed, without hesitation, despite the modesty of their financial and logistics .. This seminar were not in fact only an extension of the previous two workshops on scientific excursions Arabic, was held The first workshop on May 31 / May 2008 under the title "the language of crisis or the crisis of society," the second Vanakdt on Saturday, November 21, 2009 under the title stakes of language in the Maghreb and the challenges Internal and external "has been reissued in a book in the month of April of this year and we confidently await the issuance of this symposium exotic and pioneering in terms of content and quality issues Dealt with so that benefit the largest number of those interested in issues of the Arabic language in the era of the Internet and information ..
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