Al-Ta’rib: Pro and Con of Foreign Words Arabization

DOI

10.2991/icclas-18.2019.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Arabization (al-Ta’rib), neologism, language borrowing

Abstract

The Arabic language, like other living languages, is not able to maintain all its vocabularies, meanings, and semantics the same way as the origin language in its ancient land, the land of Hijaz. The Arabic language might accept foreign terms, or create new terms or neologisms in accordance with the modern foreign words to express the new meanings, because of the development of science and technology, information, culture, etc, and the spreading of its people in many countries in the East. The present study aims to discuss the phenomenon of Arabization between its supporters and opponents. Arabization is one of the most important factors which has contributed to the rapid modernization of the Arabic language. Arabization, or al-Ta’rib in the technical term, is the process of the assimilation of vocabulary of foreign origin into the Arabic language. This process has happened since the early days before the revelation of the Quran and after it until nowadays. The arabized words grew from time to time through the arabization made by the Arabic scholars and writers, and journalists in various media of information. In facing this phenomenon, there are three opinions, total opposition to the Arabization, total reception, and the moderate opinion that accepts arabization only by changing the foreign words in accordance with the patterns of Arabic language.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Muhammad Rusydi Khalid
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TI  - Al-Ta’rib: Pro and Con of Foreign Words Arabization
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Internasional Conference on Culture and Language in Southeast Asia (ICCLAS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icclas-18.2019.37
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