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  • 2 - Language Planning in the Arab World in an Age of Anxiety

  • from Part I - Arabic Applied Linguistics
  • Edited by Karin Ryding, Georgetown University, Washington DC, David Wilmsen, American University of Beirut
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics
    Published online:
    23 September 2021
    Print publication:
    30 September 2021, pp 32-47

  • Summary

    Tackling a knotty but crucial issue, Hussein Elkhafaifi examines deep-seated and protracted challenges of language planning in the Arab world. The long legacy of variation and language shift in spoken Arabic has led not only to the evolution of fixed boundaries between vernacular and written Arabic, but also to vigorous attempts to monitor, control, and update the written language, especially its lexical resources. Academies dedicated to strengthening and extending the lexicon of Modern Standard Arabic have existed for a century or more in several Arab countries, but have faced problems in dealing with modernization and expansion, challenged not only by the vigorous thriving of vernacular Arabic, but also by competition from Western languages such as English and French, especially in higher education, where wholesale borrowing of terms seems to continue unabated.