Languages spoken in the UK(Arabic)

This blog is going to look at the Arabic language where it is spoken around the world and in the UK mainly. the blog will look at the amount of people that speak the language in the UK.

 

The official language of the United Arab Emirates,Saudi Arabia, Egypt and some other countries in the world is Arabic, in these countries it is spoken by over 360million people, Arabic is also the language of millions of muslims around the world.
In the 1970s a number of arabs came into the UK to set up businesses and they were living in the affluent areas of london. Also a survey in the year 2000 showed that arabic was the seventh most common spoken language in the UK. The spread of arabic was from the religious conquest of the seventh century AD over a wide area. The grammar of arabic has remained normal only with some slight changes due to modernisation. Arabic writing is from the  right to left, unlike Enlish which is from left to right.

Reference

• Viv Edwards. (2007). Arabic today. Available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual/arabic.shtml. Last accessed 15th nov 2013.