What resulted to the Arabic language to being one of the major languages in the world is the fact that the religion of Islam also became the second major religion in the world. The Arabic language was a simple minor language used by the tribes who were nomads in the Arabian Peninsula with a very poor historical background. Allah sent prophet Muhammad saw to deliver the Islamic message to the world which was originally in the Arabic language. When the prophet died in the year 632 c.e, the Arabic language had become the main language in various parts of the world like Asia which led to the other languages to fade.
The second factor that made the language to be widely spread is when the Umayyad caliph decided to take it as the official language in relation to the business of the government. These transformations among the languages found in the Mediterranean basin area can be accepted by further identifying similarities with its predecessors as the main religious language of the region that is the Greek, Latin and Hebrew. When Christianity was growing during the second century, the Hebrew language was not spoken anymore as much as it preserved the Jewish religious tradition and never became a language of any empire. The language of Greek also ceased as much as it also preserved the scriptures of Christianity which is the New Testament writings.
Many scholars insist that the Arabic language originated from east Africa probably Somalia or Ethiopia whereby these countries are now dominated by Amharic and Arabic languages which are the new members of the Semitic languages. These two languages grew rapidly because it was adopted by so many people as their parent language as they migrated to other places. The speakers of Arabic language became dominant politically because in just a few hundred years, the Arabic linguistic had displaced its predecessors. The Aramaic, all southern languages and also the Hamitic language which was a descendant of Pharaonic Egyptian became dead as well.
Standard Arabic also known as the Fusha is the same linguistic that is used in the Arab world today whereby it was as well used in the early 600s in the revelation of the holy Quran. The Aramaic language was almost identical to Arabic since its syntax and vocabulary matched the classical form of the Arabic language. All the Semitic languages depend on verbs that are made up of three consonants whereby elements of other languages were established to construct word patterns.
There are like fifteen word patterns in Arabic language but five of them are not used. One of the ten patterns is the Form IX which applies to verbs only and expressing colors or even defects. It is very important that speakers of Arabic language to familiarize themselves with pronunciation of consonants like ch,p,g as well as a variety of vowels because the Arabic language has only six vowels if the speakers want to study English. They should also remember that placing verbs in Arabic language is completely different from English.
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