Every few months, an article bemoaning the death of the Arabic language emerges, whether in its spoken forms or as Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The demise is commonly attributed to the dominance of English. As we know, imperialist hegemony is always accompanied by cultural hegemony, the first target of which is language. Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o said, “In colonial conquest, language did to the mind what the sword did to the bodies of the colonised.” Language is a vessel for culture, the light which illuminates the house of heritage. By severing a people from their language, you sever them from their sense of self and fracture their historic continuity as a peop
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