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A little jealous of Arabic speakers for that, ngl (lemmy.world)

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 97 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Explanation: Arabic has maintained a great literary continuity through the centuries, in part due to the importance of the Quran as the literal written word of the Divine. A translation of the Quran is only a commentary - nothing more - meaning that written Arabic has had a sort of 'hard standard' that has bound together diverse locales with a common written form of the tongue.

[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

TIL. That's cool

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Depends, it also means that written and spoken arabic diverges strongly in some places, which is not a good feature for a language.