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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 93 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Explanation: Arabic has maintained a great literary continuity through the centuries, in part due to the importance of the Quran as the literal written word of the Divine. A translation of the Quran is only a commentary - nothing more - meaning that written Arabic has had a sort of 'hard standard' that has bound together diverse locales with a common written form of the tongue.

[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Depends, it also means that written and spoken arabic diverges strongly in some places, which is not a good feature for a language.