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The resident received the Abu Dhabi Award personally from President Sheikh Mohamed for her heroic action on April 19
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#WorldArabicLanguageDay: Fun facts about the language
Dubai - The UAE VP has asked researchers and experts to study the status of the language.
> 24 countries consider it official language
> 300 million plus people speak it
> It is 16 centuries old
> There are three broad categories of Arabic: Modern, Quranic and colloquial
> There are 100 words to say 'camel' in Arabic and 11 for 'love'
> Even though letters are written from right to left, numbers are written from left to right
> Arabic has sounds that don't exist in other languages
> English has many words of Arabic origin: Racquet, alchemy, alcohol, algebra, algorithm, etc.
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