JOHNSON has touched on Arabic and its variety quite a few times over the years, but we have never really addressed a critical question directly: what is "Arabic" today, and is it really even a single ...

Across Europe, North America, and beyond, many learners are heritage speakers or descendants of Arabic-speaking families. Their motivation is deeply personal: connecting with grandparents, ...

Arabic dialects have long carried a stigma and been dismissed as slang, but linguists are calling for them to be viewed as a source of pride. On the closing day of the International Congress of Arabic ...

All language-learners face the difficulties of regional variations or dialects. Usually, it takes the form of an odd word or turn of phrase or a peculiar pronunciation. For most languages, ...

Emirati, Moroccan experts reveal deep-rooted linguistic ties that connect Arab regions Rabat, Morocco: At the 30th Rabat International Publishing and Book Fair 2025, where Sharjah is celebrated as the ...

Speech recognition technology is building a bridge between humans and machines, but not so much for the world’s population. Is it a problem? Or a solution? Provided byQatar Foundation Thanks to ...

SHUAIBA PORT, Kuwait — Bubbling with vigor, 24-year-old Army Spc. Suzan Oliver can tell a general to keep his feet on the floor and force a major to tell her how old he is — as long as she says it in ...

A generative AI programme that is being developed in a Saudi collaboration with IBM is due to work with several Arabic dialects, according to the companies. The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence ...

AMONG THEIR many reverberations, the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 had a linguistic side-effect. Between 2002 and 2009 the number of university students in America learning Arabic shot up ...