# Government Efforts to Prevent Linguistic Borrowings: A Comprehensive Report

## Introduction

Language borrowing is a natural linguistic phenomenon that occurs when cultures come into contact.

However, many governments worldwide have implemented policies and laws to regulate or prevent borrowings, particularly from English, in their state languages.

This report examines various governmental approaches to controlling linguistic borrowings, the sociocultural and political contexts behind these efforts, and the effectiveness of such interventions.

## Russia: Legislative Measures Against Borrowings

Russia has recently implemented significant measures to protect the Russian language from foreign borrowings, particularly English:

### Legal Framework
- President Vladimir Putin signed a law "on mandatory compliance with modern Russian language norms when used as the state language.

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- The State Duma adopted a bill in its first reading on December 13 that clarifies procedures for using foreign words at the state level.

- The legislation proposes requiring officials to comply with "norms of Russian literary language" and check their use of foreign words against reference books to be developed by the government.

### Implementation Mechanisms
- A special government commission is tasked with developing specific language norms.

- The government is creating a "Normative Dictionary of the Russian Language" that will serve as an authoritative reference.

- The legislation aims to eliminate foreign words from official documents and prohibit officials from using Anglicisms and other borrowings during public speeches.

### Local Implementation
In Krasnodar, authorities have taken additional measures:
- Businesses are required to translate foreign names of stores, cafes, and restaurants into Russian.

- The chief architect of Krasnodar explained that while 100% of the population can understand Russian signage, many people (especially the elderly) cannot comprehend foreign-language signs.

- Businesses were given until September 1 to comply with these requirements.

### Sociocultural Context
Russian officials frame these measures as protecting Russian culture and identity.

As one document states, "The Russian language is one of the most popular in Eurasia, and attempts to cancel our culture are unsuccessful.

" These efforts reflect broader concerns about cultural sovereignty and resistance to perceived Western linguistic imperialism.

## Arabic-Speaking Countries: Institutional Approaches

Several Arabic-speaking countries have established institutions to regulate language use and promote Arabization:

### King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language
- The Academy has a specialized sector for language policy planning.

- It focuses on protecting classical Arabic (Fusha) and addressing linguistic duality.

- The Secretary-General of the Academy emphasized that "a language that digests is one that lives," acknowledging the need to incorporate foreign terms while maintaining Arabic identity.

### Challenges in Arabization
- The Academy faces challenges in keeping pace with the rapid global linguistic changes.

- There is ongoing debate about how to Arabize foreign words, with some linguists rejecting forced Arabization despite logical arguments.

- The Academy aims to involve everyone in viewing Arabic as a language of civilization, culture, and extended meanings.

### Linguistic Adaptation Mechanisms
Arabic has traditional mechanisms for incorporating foreign words:
- Arabic has a natural "immune system" and innate protection mechanism for regulating the "naturalization" of foreign words through Arabization.

- The famous grammarian Ibn Jinni established the principle that "what is measured on the speech of Arabs is part of their speech.

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- Arabic handles foreign proper names in various ways, sometimes keeping them in their original form (like Sibawayh) and sometimes modifying them to fit Arabic phonology (like Herakleios to Herakl).

## Algeria: Linguistic Transition

Algeria presents an interesting case of linguistic transition from French to English borrowings:

- Many Algerians now pronounce food items like "mille-feuille" in French, while newer food items carry names in English (hamburger), Turkish/Shami (shawarma), or Mexican (tacos).

- Many businesses have transitioned from French to English terminology, including makeup shops, barbershops, gyms, pharmacies, language schools, mobile phone stores, and computer stores.

- Some business owners view using English alongside Arabic as "normal and necessary" for connecting with the globalized world.

- Despite these borrowings, Arabic remains the primary language in official contexts.

## Political and Sociocultural Dimensions

### Political Motivations
Language regulation often serves political purposes:
- As noted in one document, regulating speech content "poses the inherent risk that the Government seeks not to advance a legitimate regulatory goal, but to suppress unpopular ideas or information.

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- Historical examples show governments manipulating discourse to increase state power and suppress minorities.

- The reference to Orwell's "1984" concepts like Newspeak and Thought Police highlights concerns about language control as a means of thought control.

### Public Reception
Government efforts to regulate language often face public skepticism:
- A Russian journalist mocked the initiative by jokingly suggesting replacing "president" with "tsar" and "deputy" with "boyar.

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- This satirical response suggests that some view these language regulations as absurd or unnecessarily restrictive.

### Practical Considerations
Language regulations must balance preservation with practicality:
- The Krasnodar case emphasizes accessibility as a justification for requiring Russian signage.

- The Algerian example shows how businesses adapt to global linguistic trends for practical reasons.

- The Arabic Academy acknowledges the challenge of keeping pace with global linguistic changes.

## Conclusion

Government efforts to prevent borrowings in state languages take various forms, from legislative measures in Russia to institutional approaches in Arabic-speaking countries.

These efforts reflect concerns about cultural sovereignty, national identity, and linguistic purity.

However, they also face challenges in implementation, public reception, and balancing preservation with the practical realities of global communication.

The examples presented demonstrate that while governments can attempt to regulate language use through laws and policies, linguistic borrowing remains a complex phenomenon influenced by broader sociocultural, political, and economic factors.

The effectiveness of such interventions varies, and they often spark debates about the relationship between language, identity, and power in an increasingly globalized world.

# Government Efforts to Prevent Linguistic Borrowings: A Comprehensive Report

## Introduction

Language borrowing is a natural linguistic phenomenon that occurs when cultures come into contact.

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Content: In Russia, they are determined to protect the language from excessive saturation with borrowings
The Russian language is one of the most popular in Eurasia, and attempts to abolish our culture have failed.
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Store, Department, Home and other foreign words in the names of shops, cafes and restaurants in Krasnodar soon will not be.
The Cuban capital decided to abandon all foreign names.
The Cuban authorities obliged entrepreneurs to translate business into Russian.
“A sign in a foreign language or using transliteration or a sign in Russian has a big difference.
In part of the fact that 100% of our population can read, understand the sign in Russian.
And many, by ignorance and age, do not even understand what is written on these signs, ” said the chief architect of Krasnodar Artem Salamatin.
So far, the business has been given time until September 1.
But many entrepreneurs are ready to change now.
“Everything will be in Russian.
We will translate the site into Russian.
We'll change everything.
With pleasure, ” entrepreneur Hovhannes Hovhannisyan shared.
Words borrowed from foreign languages became an integral part of Russian many centuries ago.
Massive in our speech, they appeared in different iconic historical periods.
For example, the Mongol invasion.
And after the Patriotic War of 1812 - there were a lot of gallicisms, that is, French words.
Now in conversations predominate borrowing from English.
“We began to use foreign words very actively in areas where such activity had not been observed before.
First of all, it is the public sphere.
Social sphere.
Where actually came a lot of foreign words ”, – said the Chairman of the Association of teachers of literature and Russian language Lyudmila Dudova.
Russia is now determined to protect the language from excessive saturation with borrowings.
President Vladimir Putin recently signed a law “on mandatory observance of the norms of the modern Russian language when using it as a state language. ”
What specific rules are we talking about?
It's not clear yet.
They are compiled by a special government commission.
“The normative dictionary of the Russian language will be a single consistent comprehensive publication, which will be formed on the basis of dictionaries of the Russian language.
Interpretive, spelling, ” explained Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Tatiana Vasilyeva.
Thus, foreign words should disappear as much as possible from all official documents.
In addition, officials should not use anglicisms and other borrowings during public speeches and generally avoid them in their speech.
“There are so many wonderful and beautiful words in the Russian language.
But why then instead of the word mentor we say coach.
Well, it doesn't sound.
It seems to me that we need to get rid of such words that are imposed, ” said Lyudmila Skakovskaya, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Science, Education and Culture.
This law, according to officials, should protect the Russian language from attacks from abroad, where they have long been trying to abolish all Russian.
But now these sentiments have intensified even more.
The Kiev regime has long declared war on our culture and heritage.
Throughout the country, the monument to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is being demolished, because it is he who is considered the creator of the modern literary Russian language.
And it was the language issue that became one of the main reasons for the bloody confrontation in the East of Ukraine in 2014.
Residents of Donbass then did not agree with the nationalists, they did not refuse the Russian language.
“They use the term underdogs.
All these years, when the Maidan happened, they etched Russian in the Donbass, for them it is a symbol of communication.
The Russian world is hysterical.
What connects the Russian world?
The Russian language, ” said political scientist Yuri Svetov.
The fact that our language and culture need protection is also said by the leaders of other neighboring states.
During the autumn meeting of the heads of the CIS countries in Astana, the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called on his colleagues to create an organization for the protection of the Russian language.
“Our idea is to create an international organization in the image and likeness of the UN.
Using the positive experience of Francophonie.
The headquarters of which is located in Paris, ” said President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Rossotrudnichestvo recently conducted its own study abroad, which showed that openly Russophobic sentiments are present only among politicians.
But ordinary people continue to willingly learn our language and culture.
According to the United Nations, Russian is spoken by 258 million people worldwide.
It is one of the most popular in Eurasia, and attempts to abolish our culture have failed.
Abroad, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and other Russian classics are also read.
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To fight for culture
The State Duma will consider a bill to ban advertising using foreign languages.
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For use in advertising, it is proposed to prohibit alphabets created not on the graphic basis of Cyrillic.
The authors of the bill, senators Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi believe that, since foreign language elements predominate in advertising at the moment, this information flow contributes to the wrong perception of culture.
If the bill is adopted, inscriptions in other languages can be used only to indicate the company names and trademarks that have passed state registration.
At the same time, the already registered trademarks and trade names will not be affected by the restrictions.
“The problem of cleansing the literary Russian language from excessive borrowing is constantly discussed at all levels of government.
The adoption of this bill will protect the use of Cyrillic letters in an advertising environment that is public, ” the explanatory note says.
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The depletion and gradual disappearance of languages has become an issue of concern to the world, given its serious consequences for the disappearance of identities and the international cultural diversity of which language is the main base.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ’ s (UNESCO) publication, “A Decade to Prevent the Disappearance of 3,000 Languages, ” showed that of the 7,000 languages currently spoken in the world, 6,700 are under threat, with 3,000 likely to disappear before the end of the century, with an average of one every two weeks.
The Arabic language is an important pillar of human cultural diversity, it is: the language of the Holy Quran, and one of the richest languages in vocabulary spoken by more than 450 million people.
To consolidate their position among the world ’ s languages, the Arab countries have made efforts on the international scene out of pride in their great language.
On December 18, 1973, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 3190 to adopt Arabic as the official language of the General Assembly and its subsidiary bodies.
She has also established centers to spread her learning across the globe, such as the King Salman International Arabic Language Academy.
Despite the importance of these international efforts, the Arabic language is in dire need of stronger patronage at home.
It faces obstacles and inaction from some of its people, and multiple external arrows that seek to marginalize it and eat away at its functions in Arab societies, thus fearing the threat to its existence.
Some of the manifestations of the suffering experienced by the Arabic language in its homelands:
Teaching curricula in foreign languages (English and French), and attracting international schools, depriving young people of receiving education in their mother tongue.
The intensity of the presentation of programs and films in foreign languages to the Arab public and private media, especially directed at children.
Requirements of proficiency in foreign languages for employment in public and private institutions, and omitting the importance of the requirement of mastering the Arabic language in writing and speaking.
The affliction of some elites, official, social, cultural, media and expatriate families, who exalt all that is Arabic, and boast of using foreign terminology.
The complacency of governments and individuals in protecting the Arabic language by allowing the adoption of foreign languages in: seminars, conferences, lectures, media and advertising, and the adoption of foreign names for shops, companies, events, initiatives and private and public projects.
So much contempt for the mother tongue that foreign terms are written in Arabic letters.
The absence of effective official bodies competent to assume the tasks of protecting the Arabic language, and the absence of deterrent sanctions.
Limited effective community engagement to protect the national language.
Since language is the anchor of the identity of peoples, the cohesion of their unity, the link between the past, the present and the future, without it no nation will realize who it is?
And where did it come from?
It will not be able to clearly define the future of its tracks.
The lessons of history prove that there is no survival for a nation whose people have abandoned their language.
Therefore, the Arab countries must realize that their continuation depends on their adherence to their Arabic language, as the loss of religion, identity and entity is lost, and the languages and cultures of other nations dominate the coming generations and subject them to their subordination and domination.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with its wise leadership with determination and zeal for Arab identity, deserves to unite the Arab nation and document their cohesion, through the formulation of an initiative to protect the Arabic language and its adoption at the next Arab summit to be hosted by Riyadh.
It may be appropriate for such an initiative to include the following elements:
1.
Strengthen the tendency of the Arab peoples to respect and defend their national language, and intensify media programs in support of this goal.
2.
Obliging public and private institutions to use the Arabic language in all their dealings, documents and agreements.
3.
Teaching curricula at all levels of education in Arabic, and reducing the spread of international schools in the Arab world.
4.
Expanding the production of programs and films aimed at children in Arabic, and dubbing foreign programs and films in Arabic before their presentation in the local media.
5.
Requirement of fluency in speaking and writing in Arabic when joining public and private jobs.
6.
Establish strong bodies for the protection of the Arabic language, such as anti-corruption bodies, and equip them with legislation that ensures the implementation of deterrent sanctions for all violations committed.
7.
The imposition of the Arabic language as a fixed official language for seminars, conferences and events held on the Arab territories.
8.
Arabization of the names of all shops, companies, events, initiatives and projects in the Arab countries.
9.
Establishing civil society organizations specialized in protecting the Arabic language and supporting their activities.
10.
The one who does not have the loyalty and appreciation of his mother tongue by mastering and speaking it is not good to hope for his homeland and his nation, does not rely on him.
Conclusion:
From the words of the poet Turki bin Hamid:
Our people, do not multiply the vices.
Show me an expansion fissure.
Life is in God & apos; s hands, we will create
The right of the pastor Salah the parish
We take the risk and age, it must be Zayle.
In the wake of danger, we drink sweet fruit.
If only we had passengers.
Otherwise, our homes are ignorant.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
God ’ s Spirit comes to him and gives him a silver.

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English removes French from shop fronts in new cities
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It seems that the choice of English, to replace French, as the third language in the country, after the two official languages Arabic and Tamazight, is not only a program for teaching, but has become a popular choice noted by “Daily Shorouk ” in a survey carried out in some streets of the provinces of Constantine and Guelma, as a model applicable to the majority of shops in general, especially new ones or those located in the new cities in different states.
It is striking in shops with youth businesses, which are run by young traders such as barbershops, light food, pizza, fashionable clothes and even private schools and kindergartens, as you can find only English words such as: shop, school, center, best, and other tyrant words written in various commercial spaces that have been preserved even by older women and men.
We asked the owner of an electrical shop named Sufian, 32, about his focus on the English language only in his shop, he said that the product originally came from countries that deal in English, he said, he found himself forced to learn English in order to deal with institutions in Turkey, China and other European countries such as Italy through e-mail and social networks. Sufyan considered it a lame commercial language, which cannot benefit those who master it alone if they want to succeed in their trade.
Our interlocutor believes that changing the advertising writings on the front of his shop, something that has become responsive from customers who buy various electrical materials and sometimes ask for them in proper English, and provided us boxes for various materials currently used, all written in English, and said that he no longer sees French only on the tongues of some only.
Salma, the owner of a restaurant, smiled and said: “Algerians no longer speak only Melvai in French, while the rest of the light dishes that have appeared recently have names in other languages such as English in hamburgers or Turkish and Levantine with shwarma or Mexican such as tacos, ” and considered her restaurant carrying writings in English as well as Arabic as normal and a necessary transformation from a dying language in her home. And in the tongue of its people, to a language of help to enter the world with the new Algeria.
Sufian, a restaurant worker, said that the word “fast food ”, for example, overcame the word“ resturon ” in French, many years ago, as for shops selling makeup or barbershops, bodybuilding sports, pharmacies, schools teaching various languages, mobile phone shops, receivers or computers, it has mostly moved from French to English with the Arabic language remaining the biggest title in the story.
Customers in general applauded such a linguistic shift, which was translated by Professor Alajia, a retired teacher who taught French, by saying: “We used to read only French in shops, but our young children learned this language from the writings of shops such as Sudar, Bolingye, Fermsey and Cordone, before the late President Houari Boumediene forced traders to remove French and replace it in Arabic. The famous Arabization, then the chaos of languages returned to the shops, before the choice became popular, which is to install English as the first foreign language in Algeria, not at the official level but also popular. ”
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Content: Norkin just one joke about the tsar and boyars brought the audience of the “Meeting Place ” to tears
Society
Russian journalist Andrei Norkin periodically amuses the audience of the “Meeting Place ” with various sarcastic stories or anecdotes.
This time he brought the audience to tears with a joke about kings and boyars.
Within the framework of one of the programs, the topic of introducing a ban on the use of borrowed words in speeches of civil servants was touched upon.
According to the initiators of the bill, these measures will help preserve the Russian language and save it from foreign language.
In this regard, Norkin decided to laugh at the absurdity of this initiative.
“The State Duma adopted a law on borrowed words.
In this regard, the term "president" changes to the term "tsar", the term "deputy" changes to the term "boyar", and the term "term" changes to the term "concept", "Norkin said.
Earlier it was reported that deputies of the State Duma prepared a bill that implies criminal liability for repeated violation of the ban on LGBT propaganda.

However, many governments worldwide have implemented policies and laws to regulate or prevent borrowings, particularly from English, in their state languages.

This report examines various governmental approaches to controlling linguistic borrowings, the sociocultural and political contexts behind these efforts, and the effectiveness of such interventions.

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Content: 16: 46, 01 December 2022
1 min.
Emezing experience: in Russia can ban advertising with foreign inscriptions
To fight for culture
The State Duma will consider a bill to ban advertising using foreign languages.
Photo: Rassvetnews.ru
For use in advertising, it is proposed to prohibit alphabets created not on the graphic basis of Cyrillic.
The authors of the bill, senators Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi believe that, since foreign language elements predominate in advertising at the moment, this information flow contributes to the wrong perception of culture.
If the bill is adopted, inscriptions in other languages can be used only to indicate the company names and trademarks that have passed state registration.
At the same time, the already registered trademarks and trade names will not be affected by the restrictions.
“The problem of cleansing the literary Russian language from excessive borrowing is constantly discussed at all levels of government.
The adoption of this bill will protect the use of Cyrillic letters in an advertising environment that is public, ” the explanatory note says.
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Content: Communists are asking for clarity
The Deputy of the Moscow City Duma proposes to simplify the language of laws
The Deputy of the Moscow city Duma Elena Yanchuk (CPRF) this week will submit a bill, which proposes to simplify the language of the capital ’ s regulations.
Modern laws, in her opinion, are overloaded with complex turnovers, highly specialized terms and bureaucratic jargon.
This does not allow people whose lives are regulated by these norms to fully understand them and influence the change in their content, Ms. Yanchuk believes.
United Russia says that developments in this direction are already underway, in particular, in the field of replacing foreign analogues of Russian words.
The bill proposes to supplement Article 11 of the law “On legal acts of the city of Moscow ” with a norm on the simplification of their language: the presentation should be“ simple and understandable ”, which means that when writing they should avoid “clerisms, professional jargons, borrowed words and complex syntactic constructions ”.
In the explanatory note, Elena Yanchuk refers to the scientific monograph of 2018 of the Research Institute of Problems of the State Language of St. Petersburg University, which notes that the language of legislative acts is understood by “no more than five percent of the country ’ s residents ”.
According to the MP, the complexity of the presentation of laws “leads to misunderstanding between the government and society ”, and the correction of the situation will contribute to the“ development of civil society ” and “the implementation of fundamental constitutional principles. ”
In particular, Ms. Yanchuk notes that according to the law on legal acts, residents of the capital “are subjects of lawmaking ”, but it is“ difficult without a deep understanding ” of the laws, which makes it necessary to state them “in a simple and understandable language. ”
The Communist also recalls the experience of other countries: in particular, New Zealand, which adopted a similar law last fall, and the United States, which enshrined similar rules in 2010.
To prove the necessity of changing the language of laws, Elena Yanchuk researched several regulations of Moscow with the help of linguists.
They pointed to the accumulation of involved turnover and the frequent use of highly specialized and foreign language terms (for example, “sequestration of expenses ” and“ listing of securities ”).
Ms. Yanchuk emphasizes that her initiative does not imply the introduction of any restrictions for ordinary people and concerns only the unjustified use of foreign words.
“The bill does not set the task of inventing or selecting Russian synonyms for all words borrowed from other languages, of which there are many in our language, ” the explanatory note says.
It should be noted that on December 13, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill clarifying the procedure for the use of foreign words at the state level.
The document proposes to oblige officials to observe the “norms of the Russian literary language ”, comparing them and permissible foreign words with reference books to be developed by the government.
Proposals to cleanse the language of laws from unnecessary clerisms are periodically expressed, since this is dictated by the need for an unambiguous understanding of the meaning of the document, the head of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Legislation Alexander Semennikov (United Russia) told Kommersant.
There are developments in this direction, the deputy noted, citing the above-mentioned law “On the state language ” as an example.
“In addition, there is judicial and law enforcement practice of interpretation of terms and verbal blocks, — said Mr. Semennikov. — It is clear that in one day it is impossible to change, because there is a huge array of already adopted laws, set out in a certain style and lexical uniformity.
Simultaneously go from the language, conditionally, "War and Peace" to the syllable of the fairy tale about Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka is unreal. "
However, the bill has not yet been submitted to the city Duma, and to look at what is written and how it is written, “it will be interesting, ” the deputy added.
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Officials who juggle foreign words in their official speeches and documents without much reason and meaning must learn to be more restrained, otherwise they will have to spend all their salaries on fines.
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Content: Norkin just one joke about the tsar and boyars brought the audience of the “Meeting Place ” to tears
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Russian journalist Andrei Norkin periodically amuses the audience of the “Meeting Place ” with various sarcastic stories or anecdotes.
This time he brought the audience to tears with a joke about kings and boyars.
Within the framework of one of the programs, the topic of introducing a ban on the use of borrowed words in speeches of civil servants was touched upon.
According to the initiators of the bill, these measures will help preserve the Russian language and save it from foreign language.
In this regard, Norkin decided to laugh at the absurdity of this initiative.
“The State Duma adopted a law on borrowed words.
In this regard, the term "president" changes to the term "tsar", the term "deputy" changes to the term "boyar", and the term "term" changes to the term "concept", "Norkin said.
Earlier it was reported that deputies of the State Duma prepared a bill that implies criminal liability for repeated violation of the ban on LGBT propaganda.

## Russia: Legislative Measures Against Borrowings

Russia has recently implemented significant measures to protect the Russian language from foreign borrowings, particularly English:

### Legal Framework
- President Vladimir Putin signed a law "on mandatory compliance with modern Russian language norms when used as the state language.

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Content: 16: 46, 01 December 2022
1 min.
Emezing experience: in Russia can ban advertising with foreign inscriptions
To fight for culture
The State Duma will consider a bill to ban advertising using foreign languages.
Photo: Rassvetnews.ru
For use in advertising, it is proposed to prohibit alphabets created not on the graphic basis of Cyrillic.
The authors of the bill, senators Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi believe that, since foreign language elements predominate in advertising at the moment, this information flow contributes to the wrong perception of culture.
If the bill is adopted, inscriptions in other languages can be used only to indicate the company names and trademarks that have passed state registration.
At the same time, the already registered trademarks and trade names will not be affected by the restrictions.
“The problem of cleansing the literary Russian language from excessive borrowing is constantly discussed at all levels of government.
The adoption of this bill will protect the use of Cyrillic letters in an advertising environment that is public, ” the explanatory note says.
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The law on the state Russian language does not take into account the differences in its use in various fields - from advertising to legal acts.
Common standards can lead to difficulties in complying with the relevant norms.
This was stated by the rector of St. Petersburg University Nikolai Kropachev during the parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council, reports on Tuesday, November 14, “SenatInform ”.
“Strict requirements for compliance with the single can not be met in different areas.
I hope you will support it, ” Kropachev said.
According to the rector of St. Petersburg State University, Russia needs organizational decisions on the unjustified use of foreign words, but for this it is necessary to create a single normative dictionary.
Kropachev noted that he should exclude contradictions in the interpretation and use of words and expressions.
In February 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the inadmissibility of the use of foreign words and the use of Russian as the state language in the areas established by law.
Earlier, the State Duma approved a list of areas where Russian is mandatory for use.
It includes information for consumers of goods, works and services, as well as the education sector, state and municipal information systems.
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- The State Duma adopted a bill in its first reading on December 13 that clarifies procedures for using foreign words at the state level.

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Content: 16: 46, 01 December 2022
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Emezing experience: in Russia can ban advertising with foreign inscriptions
To fight for culture
The State Duma will consider a bill to ban advertising using foreign languages.
Photo: Rassvetnews.ru
For use in advertising, it is proposed to prohibit alphabets created not on the graphic basis of Cyrillic.
The authors of the bill, senators Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi believe that, since foreign language elements predominate in advertising at the moment, this information flow contributes to the wrong perception of culture.
If the bill is adopted, inscriptions in other languages can be used only to indicate the company names and trademarks that have passed state registration.
At the same time, the already registered trademarks and trade names will not be affected by the restrictions.
“The problem of cleansing the literary Russian language from excessive borrowing is constantly discussed at all levels of government.
The adoption of this bill will protect the use of Cyrillic letters in an advertising environment that is public, ” the explanatory note says.
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Content: Farewell briefing and fact-checking!
Officials who juggle foreign words in their official speeches and documents without much reason and meaning must learn to be more restrained, otherwise they will have to spend all their salaries on fines.
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The law on the state Russian language does not take into account the differences in its use in various fields - from advertising to legal acts.
Common standards can lead to difficulties in complying with the relevant norms.
This was stated by the rector of St. Petersburg University Nikolai Kropachev during the parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council, reports on Tuesday, November 14, “SenatInform ”.
“Strict requirements for compliance with the single can not be met in different areas.
I hope you will support it, ” Kropachev said.
According to the rector of St. Petersburg State University, Russia needs organizational decisions on the unjustified use of foreign words, but for this it is necessary to create a single normative dictionary.
Kropachev noted that he should exclude contradictions in the interpretation and use of words and expressions.
In February 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the inadmissibility of the use of foreign words and the use of Russian as the state language in the areas established by law.
Earlier, the State Duma approved a list of areas where Russian is mandatory for use.
It includes information for consumers of goods, works and services, as well as the education sector, state and municipal information systems.
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Russian journalist Andrei Norkin periodically amuses the audience of the “Meeting Place ” with various sarcastic stories or anecdotes.
This time he brought the audience to tears with a joke about kings and boyars.
Within the framework of one of the programs, the topic of introducing a ban on the use of borrowed words in speeches of civil servants was touched upon.
According to the initiators of the bill, these measures will help preserve the Russian language and save it from foreign language.
In this regard, Norkin decided to laugh at the absurdity of this initiative.
“The State Duma adopted a law on borrowed words.
In this regard, the term "president" changes to the term "tsar", the term "deputy" changes to the term "boyar", and the term "term" changes to the term "concept", "Norkin said.
Earlier it was reported that deputies of the State Duma prepared a bill that implies criminal liability for repeated violation of the ban on LGBT propaganda.

- The legislation proposes requiring officials to comply with "norms of Russian literary language" and check their use of foreign words against reference books to be developed by the government.

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Content: 16: 46, 01 December 2022
1 min.
Emezing experience: in Russia can ban advertising with foreign inscriptions
To fight for culture
The State Duma will consider a bill to ban advertising using foreign languages.
Photo: Rassvetnews.ru
For use in advertising, it is proposed to prohibit alphabets created not on the graphic basis of Cyrillic.
The authors of the bill, senators Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi believe that, since foreign language elements predominate in advertising at the moment, this information flow contributes to the wrong perception of culture.
If the bill is adopted, inscriptions in other languages can be used only to indicate the company names and trademarks that have passed state registration.
At the same time, the already registered trademarks and trade names will not be affected by the restrictions.
“The problem of cleansing the literary Russian language from excessive borrowing is constantly discussed at all levels of government.
The adoption of this bill will protect the use of Cyrillic letters in an advertising environment that is public, ” the explanatory note says.
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Content: French court orders French government not to use English labels
Cairo - Center Gate Monday 24 October 2022, 10: 35 am
The French judiciary banned the government from using the English label "Health data hub" in any communication materials related to the government health data center, and ordered it, following a review by the Association for the Defense of the Francophonie, to use the French synonym.
On October 20, the Paris Administrative Court issued a decision requiring the Ministry of Health to “withdraw the expression Health Data Hub (HDH) from all communication channels aimed at the French public on the national territory by April 20, 2023, ” according to AFP.
Association for the Defense of Francophonie
The Francophonie Avenir submitted a review to the administrative court seeking to prevent the state from using English terms such as “Choose France ”,“ French Tech ” or “French Impact ” in compliance with the 1994 French Language Defense Law.
This law prohibits any public entity from using a “foreign expression or term ” in a trademark or name created by it, once there is a synonym in French.
With regard to the Health Data Center, the Administrative Court of Paris noted that each of the three terms in the English label "Health Data Hub" had "a translation approved by the French Language Enrichment Commission", which was later published in the Official Gazette.
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The law on the state Russian language does not take into account the differences in its use in various fields - from advertising to legal acts.
Common standards can lead to difficulties in complying with the relevant norms.
This was stated by the rector of St. Petersburg University Nikolai Kropachev during the parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council, reports on Tuesday, November 14, “SenatInform ”.
“Strict requirements for compliance with the single can not be met in different areas.
I hope you will support it, ” Kropachev said.
According to the rector of St. Petersburg State University, Russia needs organizational decisions on the unjustified use of foreign words, but for this it is necessary to create a single normative dictionary.
Kropachev noted that he should exclude contradictions in the interpretation and use of words and expressions.
In February 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the inadmissibility of the use of foreign words and the use of Russian as the state language in the areas established by law.
Earlier, the State Duma approved a list of areas where Russian is mandatory for use.
It includes information for consumers of goods, works and services, as well as the education sector, state and municipal information systems.
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Content: Norkin just one joke about the tsar and boyars brought the audience of the “Meeting Place ” to tears
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Russian journalist Andrei Norkin periodically amuses the audience of the “Meeting Place ” with various sarcastic stories or anecdotes.
This time he brought the audience to tears with a joke about kings and boyars.
Within the framework of one of the programs, the topic of introducing a ban on the use of borrowed words in speeches of civil servants was touched upon.
According to the initiators of the bill, these measures will help preserve the Russian language and save it from foreign language.
In this regard, Norkin decided to laugh at the absurdity of this initiative.
“The State Duma adopted a law on borrowed words.
In this regard, the term "president" changes to the term "tsar", the term "deputy" changes to the term "boyar", and the term "term" changes to the term "concept", "Norkin said.
Earlier it was reported that deputies of the State Duma prepared a bill that implies criminal liability for repeated violation of the ban on LGBT propaganda.

### Implementation Mechanisms
- A special government commission is tasked with developing specific language norms.

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The law on the state Russian language does not take into account the differences in its use in various fields - from advertising to legal acts.
Common standards can lead to difficulties in complying with the relevant norms.
This was stated by the rector of St. Petersburg University Nikolai Kropachev during the parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council, reports on Tuesday, November 14, “SenatInform ”.
“Strict requirements for compliance with the single can not be met in different areas.
I hope you will support it, ” Kropachev said.
According to the rector of St. Petersburg State University, Russia needs organizational decisions on the unjustified use of foreign words, but for this it is necessary to create a single normative dictionary.
Kropachev noted that he should exclude contradictions in the interpretation and use of words and expressions.
In February 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the inadmissibility of the use of foreign words and the use of Russian as the state language in the areas established by law.
Earlier, the State Duma approved a list of areas where Russian is mandatory for use.
It includes information for consumers of goods, works and services, as well as the education sector, state and municipal information systems.
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- The government is creating a "Normative Dictionary of the Russian Language" that will serve as an authoritative reference.

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The law on the state Russian language does not take into account the differences in its use in various fields - from advertising to legal acts.
Common standards can lead to difficulties in complying with the relevant norms.
This was stated by the rector of St. Petersburg University Nikolai Kropachev during the parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council, reports on Tuesday, November 14, “SenatInform ”.
“Strict requirements for compliance with the single can not be met in different areas.
I hope you will support it, ” Kropachev said.
According to the rector of St. Petersburg State University, Russia needs organizational decisions on the unjustified use of foreign words, but for this it is necessary to create a single normative dictionary.
Kropachev noted that he should exclude contradictions in the interpretation and use of words and expressions.
In February 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the inadmissibility of the use of foreign words and the use of Russian as the state language in the areas established by law.
Earlier, the State Duma approved a list of areas where Russian is mandatory for use.
It includes information for consumers of goods, works and services, as well as the education sector, state and municipal information systems.
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- The legislation aims to eliminate foreign words from official documents and prohibit officials from using Anglicisms and other borrowings during public speeches.

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Content: 16: 46, 01 December 2022
1 min.
Emezing experience: in Russia can ban advertising with foreign inscriptions
To fight for culture
The State Duma will consider a bill to ban advertising using foreign languages.
Photo: Rassvetnews.ru
For use in advertising, it is proposed to prohibit alphabets created not on the graphic basis of Cyrillic.
The authors of the bill, senators Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi believe that, since foreign language elements predominate in advertising at the moment, this information flow contributes to the wrong perception of culture.
If the bill is adopted, inscriptions in other languages can be used only to indicate the company names and trademarks that have passed state registration.
At the same time, the already registered trademarks and trade names will not be affected by the restrictions.
“The problem of cleansing the literary Russian language from excessive borrowing is constantly discussed at all levels of government.
The adoption of this bill will protect the use of Cyrillic letters in an advertising environment that is public, ” the explanatory note says.
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Content: French court orders French government not to use English labels
Cairo - Center Gate Monday 24 October 2022, 10: 35 am
The French judiciary banned the government from using the English label "Health data hub" in any communication materials related to the government health data center, and ordered it, following a review by the Association for the Defense of the Francophonie, to use the French synonym.
On October 20, the Paris Administrative Court issued a decision requiring the Ministry of Health to “withdraw the expression Health Data Hub (HDH) from all communication channels aimed at the French public on the national territory by April 20, 2023, ” according to AFP.
Association for the Defense of Francophonie
The Francophonie Avenir submitted a review to the administrative court seeking to prevent the state from using English terms such as “Choose France ”,“ French Tech ” or “French Impact ” in compliance with the 1994 French Language Defense Law.
This law prohibits any public entity from using a “foreign expression or term ” in a trademark or name created by it, once there is a synonym in French.
With regard to the Health Data Center, the Administrative Court of Paris noted that each of the three terms in the English label "Health Data Hub" had "a translation approved by the French Language Enrichment Commission", which was later published in the Official Gazette.
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The law on the state Russian language does not take into account the differences in its use in various fields - from advertising to legal acts.
Common standards can lead to difficulties in complying with the relevant norms.
This was stated by the rector of St. Petersburg University Nikolai Kropachev during the parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council, reports on Tuesday, November 14, “SenatInform ”.
“Strict requirements for compliance with the single can not be met in different areas.
I hope you will support it, ” Kropachev said.
According to the rector of St. Petersburg State University, Russia needs organizational decisions on the unjustified use of foreign words, but for this it is necessary to create a single normative dictionary.
Kropachev noted that he should exclude contradictions in the interpretation and use of words and expressions.
In February 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the inadmissibility of the use of foreign words and the use of Russian as the state language in the areas established by law.
Earlier, the State Duma approved a list of areas where Russian is mandatory for use.
It includes information for consumers of goods, works and services, as well as the education sector, state and municipal information systems.
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Russian journalist Andrei Norkin periodically amuses the audience of the “Meeting Place ” with various sarcastic stories or anecdotes.
This time he brought the audience to tears with a joke about kings and boyars.
Within the framework of one of the programs, the topic of introducing a ban on the use of borrowed words in speeches of civil servants was touched upon.
According to the initiators of the bill, these measures will help preserve the Russian language and save it from foreign language.
In this regard, Norkin decided to laugh at the absurdity of this initiative.
“The State Duma adopted a law on borrowed words.
In this regard, the term "president" changes to the term "tsar", the term "deputy" changes to the term "boyar", and the term "term" changes to the term "concept", "Norkin said.
Earlier it was reported that deputies of the State Duma prepared a bill that implies criminal liability for repeated violation of the ban on LGBT propaganda.

### Local Implementation
In Krasnodar, authorities have taken additional measures:
- Businesses are required to translate foreign names of stores, cafes, and restaurants into Russian.

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Content: 16: 46, 01 December 2022
1 min.
Emezing experience: in Russia can ban advertising with foreign inscriptions
To fight for culture
The State Duma will consider a bill to ban advertising using foreign languages.
Photo: Rassvetnews.ru
For use in advertising, it is proposed to prohibit alphabets created not on the graphic basis of Cyrillic.
The authors of the bill, senators Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi believe that, since foreign language elements predominate in advertising at the moment, this information flow contributes to the wrong perception of culture.
If the bill is adopted, inscriptions in other languages can be used only to indicate the company names and trademarks that have passed state registration.
At the same time, the already registered trademarks and trade names will not be affected by the restrictions.
“The problem of cleansing the literary Russian language from excessive borrowing is constantly discussed at all levels of government.
The adoption of this bill will protect the use of Cyrillic letters in an advertising environment that is public, ” the explanatory note says.
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- The chief architect of Krasnodar explained that while 100% of the population can understand Russian signage, many people (especially the elderly) cannot comprehend foreign-language signs.

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- Businesses were given until September 1 to comply with these requirements.

### Sociocultural Context
Russian officials frame these measures as protecting Russian culture and identity.

As one document states, "The Russian language is one of the most popular in Eurasia, and attempts to cancel our culture are unsuccessful.

" These efforts reflect broader concerns about cultural sovereignty and resistance to perceived Western linguistic imperialism.

## Arabic-Speaking Countries: Institutional Approaches

Several Arabic-speaking countries have established institutions to regulate language use and promote Arabization:

### King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language
- The Academy has a specialized sector for language policy planning.

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The Secretary General of the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, Dr. Abdullah Al-Washmi, revealed to the program “In Public ” the existence of an entire sector in the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, explaining part of his concerns in the interest of the Arabic language as a global language that should not be subject to initial impressions, but to overcome the stage of how to grow this vocabulary.
"The language that digests, it lives," he said, expressing the refusal of some linguists to Arabize foreign words despite their logical arguments, adding to the great challenge.
They face it to keep up with the speed of the global movement in the Arabization of words to be part of the identity of the Arabic language, rather than arbitrary attempts to find a counterpart of the Arabic vocabulary.
Dr. Al-Wachmi replied, “The role of the media in the use of the Arabic language? ”
“Today ’ s media has swelled dramatically and we have to look at other distinctive aspects, for example, there is a special broadcaster or sports commentator who always uses a distinctive linguistic repertoire reflected on his comment on the game and also there is an influencer in the Twitter platform who gives a speech and may have more impact on young people than language dictionaries, ” he said.
Al-Washmi revealed through the Saudi channel screen the establishment of the artificial intelligence center for processing the Arabic language, which includes a set of factors to make the language for everyone, and the qualitative challenges that the majority of linguists are not proficient in technical matters, noting the Arabic language program, which aims to involve all linguists and computationists around the world and provide a set of challenges that linguists have faced since ancient times.
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- It focuses on protecting classical Arabic (Fusha) and addressing linguistic duality.

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Recommendations of the 90th Arabic Language Academy Conference
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The Arabic Language Academy, headed by Dr. Abdul Wahab Abdul Hafez, President of the Academy, concluded the activities of its annual international conference on Thursday, May 2, 2024 in its 90th session, entitled: "Arabic Language and the Challenges of the Age: Visions, Perceptions and Suggestions".
The conference was attended by many heads of Arabic language academies and higher bodies concerned with the Arabic language, members of the conference of the Academy and correspondents from Arab and foreign countries.
Abdulhamid Madkour, Secretary General of the Academy, announced the decisions and recommendations of the conference as follows:
In light of the provisions of Law No. (112) of 2008, which stipulates that the educational institutions, the authorities supervising cultural services, ministries and public bodies, local administration units, and other bodies under the supervision of the mentioned authorities shall implement the decisions issued by the Academy to serve the integrity of the Arabic language, facilitate its dissemination and dissemination, develop its teaching and learning methods, adjust its correct pronunciation, standardize its terminology and replace common foreign names. community,.
The Conference recommends that:
It is the right of the teachers of the Arabic language in universities to adhere to the standard Arabic language in its teaching, and in their scientific discussions, and to train their students to use it.
2- The Supreme Council of Universities includes language curricula that will gain its students the basic skills of Arabic language speaking, writing and understanding, especially the departments of the faculties of theoretical sciences.
3 - The Arabic language departments add a curriculum to introduce students to the basics of artificial intelligence, computer programs and scientific codes, and train them on how to employ it in raising the scientific level of students.
The official bodies concerned with translation at the level of the Arab world should strive to develop a unified Arab translation policy, and to establish a quantitative balance between translated works in applied sciences and translated works in theoretical sciences.
To expand the circle of cooperation between the Academy of Arabic Language in Cairo and the National Council for Translation, to include the establishment of incentive prizes in translation from and into Arabic under the supervision of both parties.
Official bodies related to the Arabic language, such as the Ministries of Education, Culture, Information and Endowments, should increase their interest in the dissemination of the Arabic language as an important strategic factor in the unification and development of the Arab world.
and to work hard to increase the Arabic content on the Internet.
7- The Union of Language Academies expands the coordination between the Arabic academies; to become unified and integrated efforts in their work projects, especially in the field of scientific terminology.
There are several recommendations addressed by the Conference to the Cairo Assembly, which will be re-read to the members of the Assembly at the first meeting of the Council after the Conference, in order to discuss them and take appropriate decisions, including:
1 - Set the date of the conference of the complex and its subject at an early period so that researchers can accomplish their research, and the management of the complex can address the concerned parties to be present for the conference members and correspondents.
2 - Take advantage of the work of the linguistic and scientific committees in updating the lexicon of the complex.
The Arabic Language Academy seeks to establish two awards in the field of translation, the first for works translated into Arabic, and the second for works translated from Arabic to other live world languages.
4- Reviving the work of the committees of translation, literature and the Arabic language in education, which have been suspended for some time.
5- To cooperate with the two committees: "Arabic Language and Artificial Intelligence" and "Arabic Language in Education" to design courses dedicated to the applications of artificial intelligence for students of Arabic language and literature.
It is worth mentioning that the conference of the Academy discussed in its closed sessions sections of linguistic and scientific terms presented by the committees: biology and agriculture, education and psychology, environmental sciences, dialects and linguistic research, physics, terminology and methods, geology, computers, the grand lexicon (materials from the letters Ta and Za ’ a), history and archaeology, Islamic philosophy, anthropology, and the lexicon of Arabic poetry. Mathematics, Media, Engineering, Geography, Language Origins, and Oil.
In the public sessions of the conference, in which attendance was made available to the public, research was given: "Defending the Arabic language in the light of contemporary challenges" by Dr. Ahmed Al-Dhabib (Member of the Conference of the Academy from Saudi Arabia), "From computer programs to teaching Arabic: Creating a program that defines the morphological doors of the simple triple act" by Dr. Wafa Kamel (Member of the Academy). Dr. Basma Ahmad Al-Dajani (Professor of Arabic Language at the University of Jordan), Dr. Hassan Bashir Siddiq (Member of the Conference of the Academy from Sudan), "Arabic language and contemporary challenges and ways to face them in light of the availability of artificial intelligence technologies", Dr. Ayman Shaheen (Expert in the Academy), and "Arabic between the ideal perception and life verification", Osama Abu Al-Abbas (Senior Researcher at the Academy), "The Cultural Reality and its Impact on the Arabic Language", by Prof. Dr. Ayed Al-Radadi (Member of the Correspondent Academy from Saudi Arabia), "The Need for Arabic Language in Phonetic Analysis and in Others for International Letters", by Dr. Mohamed Khalifa Al-Aswad (Member of the Libyan Academy), and "Levels of Linguistic Communication between the Reader and the Arabic Novel Text". Dr. Saleh Belaid (Member of the Correspondent Academy from Algeria), "Arabic Language and Education: Language Consciousness and Cognitive Consciousness", research by Dr. Youssef Al-Issawi (Member of the Correspondent Academy from Iraq), and "Towards rooting the applications of artificial intelligence in the departments of Arabic language and literature". Dr. Amr El Gendy (Researcher at the Academy), and then the panel session "Round Table", entitled "Problems of Translation", chaired and moderated by Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El Rubaie (Member of the Academy), and spoke: Prof. Dr. Mohamed Fahmy Tolba (Member of the Academy), Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Halim (Member of the Conference of the Academy), Prof. Dr. Karma Sami Sami Sami (Director of the National Center for Translation), Languages and Translation, Al-Azhar University), "Artificial Intelligence and Arabic Language Teaching and Learning", by Dr. Mohammed Adnan Al-Bakhit (President of the Jordanian Arabic Language Academy), "Duplication in the Marriage of Zain novel by Dr. Bakri Mohammed Al-Haj (Member of the Academy Conference from Sudan), and" Social Acceptance of New Words ", by Prof. Dr. Bakri Mohammed Al-Haj Qasim Taha Al-Sara (Expert in the Academy),“ The Institutional Dimension in the Protection, Promotion and Promotion of the Standard ”, by Dr. Musleh Al-Najjar (Professor of Literature and Criticism at the Hashemite University), “The efforts of the Academy of Arabic Language in bridging the gap between standard and vernacular: proposed solutions to the problem of bilingualism ”, by Dr. Iman Al-Saeed (Expert in the Academy), Dr. Hisham Zaghloul Abdel Fattah (Expert)," Educational Research in Arabic Language Teaching: A Cry of Awakening and Reform ", by Dr. Mahmoud Kamel Al-Naqa (Member of the Academy)," Images of Arabic Digital Content on the Internet ", by Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Subaie (Member of the Academy Correspondent from Qatar), and" Data Processing for Artificial Intelligence Technologies ", by Dr. Mohsen Rashwan (Expert of the Academy).
The conference concluded its activities on Thursday, May 2, 2024, with a final report on the work of the conference by Dr. Abdul Hamid Madkour (Secretary General of the Academy), followed by the announcement of the decisions and recommendations, followed by the speech of Dr. Ahmed Al-Dabib (on behalf of the non-Egyptian members of the Conference), and the closing speech of Dr. Abdul Wahab Abdel Hafez (Chairman of the Academy).

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Content: Arabic and Arabization.
Conscious flexibility and solid independence!
She takes the Arabic - if she wants - able and not powerless, and gives - if she gives - rich and not subject..
The fact that I wanted to evoke the zealous guitars, and they follow the "fashions" and "sensitivities" of foreign languages, and strive to bring it down on Arabic, and they are so sorry they quarantine a wide, and I think that the people fell in the dose of excessive enthusiasm that good faith, but the landing of Arabic on the condition of other languages acted between the rib, and I will multiply for example, Right away with that stoning.
Good people call on the Chinese to translate the word "Apple" in Chinese (which means "apple"), in violation of a systematic rule and a scientific year that flags do not translate.
In my opinion, this is not without the "national sensitivity" of the excessive "preventive reservation", which governs the closure of the door of linguistic openness in the face of the invasion of the intruder; because of a sense of vulnerability, or simply to guard and block the pretext of leakage of the intruder, or for other reasons.
The Arab has an autonomous "immune system" and an innate protection system that controls the policy of "naturalization" of the intruder through the mechanism of "Arabization", which the imam of the language Ibn Jinni when he held - in the book "Characteristics" - a section in which he stated that "what is measured on the words of the Arabs is their words."
Beyond that, we find Arabic contrary to the Chinese language policy followed in translating the name of the company (Apple) (according to some bloggers of social networking sites and electronic content makers), the most famous imams of Arabic grammar - and the first name in this flag - is Sibuye, and has been frequent references that the meaning of this name (science): "smell of apples"!
And for my life, if the Arabs adopted the translation in the "Arabization" of that name, the Amat wrote the language with the words: He said the smell of apples and the doctrine of "the smell of apples" such and such..!..
But they ignored the translation, and left the name remaining on its complex Persian origin; they did not act upon it except by writing it in Arabic script!
This is about the translation of the Flags, in which the name of Sibuye was handed over from the disposition of many vernacular names, willingly perverting their literal structure — omitting or replacing — as in the name of Hercules, which is a perversion of the idiosyncratic name (Heraclius), and of Thryk, which is a perversion of the foreign name (Rodericus), and as in my names Washington, and as in Britain.
Rather, this part – by extension – was linked – indirectly – to the subject of Arabization and its implicit connection – to it, as I mentioned earlier.
As for Arabization, I will give him an example, in which Habel mixed excessive enthusiasm with Nabeul Impressionist prejudice, and not two thousand hasty says: "You are jealous of the Arab, and the sword of enmity in the faces of Sindha who are preoccupied with the fever of the AD."
This is not what I wanted, but it is criticism and rectification with the exercise of scientific honesty and taking into account objective impartiality as much as I can and what I conciliate except by God.
If the criticism left a circle, and subtract the correction as a courtesy to lose much knowledge, we arrived through the carpet of criticism and correction, and I recall here - by the way - the correction of Zubaidi - the author of the "Crown of the Bride" - on the Firozabadi owner of the "Ocean Dictionary", and Ahmed Faris Chidiac followed the dictionary of Firozabadi with his book entitled "(which is known!).
Indeed, we find Zubaidi, who is late, does not object to writing the phrase: "The illusion of the owner of the dictionary"!..
The late contemporaries are still turning to the Firozabadi - on his majesty and the height of his heel.
This is in the subject of language, how about impressionist views?
I write this in my hand to comment on what my son, Amali Mohammed, went to when he shunned the Arabic language complex, and mourned him to adopt - and leave - the word "trend", and the truth is that the Cairo complex did not exceed that originally work from the origins of "Arabization" classified in the rules of Arabic language complexes, which adopt "Arabist", and "intruder", and tend to "borrowing" Scheduled determinations.
The word "Trend" is not a literal dissonance or a verbal difficulty, it is - in its literal form and its formal structure - similar to the word "frend", which the Arabic language dictionaries mention that it is an alien (i.e. the foreign word naturalized, which is not of Arabic origin), and if the word "Trend" is solved by the means of definition (the solar), its pronunciation, and melted.
In justifying his objection to the leave of the word Trend, Professor Mohammed Lakhdhaf argued that some Western linguistic complexes refrain from inserting the word (Trend) in their "national language", which is a return domestication; because Arabic has its own independent linguistic entity, it does not need to follow this "national fashion" or that "linguistic sensitivity", whatever its source!
The most beautiful meeting of the Hasanists: the sweetness of the bell rhythmic, the accuracy of the semantic expression, and the originality of derivation in Arabization, the proximity of the socket, the presence of smoothness, the absence of affectation, beloved to the soul, easy in mind, soft in the ear..
But the Arabization (in a broad sense) is on strike.
One of the striking formulations - while retaining the foreign original - as in the Arabization of "television" and "television"; this behavior in addition to the definition of "L", and the use of words from classical Arabic to Arabize the names of modern inventors with a foreign name, as in "phone", and "car", and may be the name of the modern inventor closer to explanation and approximation, so be translated Let ’ s push that shit.
The Arabic language, with its conscious openness, is "completely independent", making it different from other sister and friendly languages.
It does not match the Chinese, for example, in its "linguistic sensitivity", which led the Chinese to translate the name of the company (Apple) in contrast, which means "apple", and if Arabic followed the whims of foreign language complexes, and copied its laws to the corner of its independence and took its living autonomy!
Arabic has something that other languages do not; it is immune to the extinction that affected human languages that once lived, and it is preserved from the alienation that threatens other languages that live on the political presence and feed on the economic impact.
If Arabic was at the mercy of political power and economic influence, it would have been erased from the map of “global circulation ”; for its people ’ s complacency and contempt for it, and for their neglect of being a“ tongue ” and an “identity ” – at a time – then for the weakness of the presence of Arab countries, and the relapse of the patriotism of their ruling formalities, especially when it comes to language.
And the greatest irony of all, and a funny affliction!
In the book of Genesis, we read the book of Genesis, and the book of Genesis, which we read in the book of Genesis, is the same as the book of Genesis.
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Content: From time to time, one of us stands to talk to us alone, and then turns away from our Arabic language for other languages under the pretext of the inability of this language to absorb the shorthand of the times and the techniques of speech today, and ignores the fact that it is our identity before and after, and the language of our official speech in the east and west of the earth. It was not the fault of the Arabic language that its people failed to keep up with the achievements of the era and the civilization of today, and it can not be created without our belief in it, or to flourish when we abandon it in our school books and fail to support it.
Language, any language, has never been but the sign of existence, the truth of knowledge, the act of will, whatever it may be.
But the Arabic language is also distinguished as the language of truth and semantic expression together.
Its sources are the Quran first and it is miraculous words with its systems and not with its provisions, as Abdul Qaher Al-Jarjani says in his book (Quranic Miracles)..
The second of its sources is what the Arabs said before and after, and the Qur ’ an is not revealed to them except to boast of their language, and their greatness of their poets and preachers are people of eloquence and rhetoric, and some of them weaves the word history and language structure. The third of its sources is the metaphor, which preserves the language growth and multiplicity and its many connotations. So with the evolution of semantics and the logic of expression over the ages...
This is what prompts the charge of inertia or failure to keep up with the techniques of contemporary language, as well as the fact that this metaphor is often the dialogue of conscience and the speech of the soul at the hands of poets and philosophers.
So we are in the hands of a language, even though it seems to some at times, we are gathered under the tree of the poem, when poets are born, each time they search for another horizon of speech in which they build meanings that have not been touched before, and there is no way for them to do so except language when meanings were thrown on the road more than a thousand years ago, as Al-Jahiz said. The shadow of a sermon makes history, and the memory falls apart all the time, and is envisioned by events that are in need.
It is always growing and growing and growing over the years.
Poets are born in us even after a while, and writers realize the growth of their language and they grow with it, and mature media takes us to new linguistic structures that grow within us without us being aware of them.
We are the people of a language that is stagnant only when we freeze without believing in it.
We do not drop it except to justify our inability to carry it to the civilizations of other languages.
Every lack of language, if it were not for the fact that we are a nation that has lagged behind other nations in science and knowledge, yet this language has preserved their progress, even at the level of expression, and cannot do more than this, even if it turns into an accusation and a sin when it was said at some time that the Arabs are a phonetic phenomenon.
Live our language and live by it when we cannot be other than it.
Ebrahim Alwafi

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Content: Culture and ArtsHighlights
“In Public ” Reveals the Challenges of Localizing Foreign Words
Regions _ Riyadh
The Secretary General of the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, Dr. Abdullah Al-Washmi, revealed to the program “In Public ” the existence of an entire sector in the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, explaining part of his concerns in the interest of the Arabic language as a global language that should not be subject to initial impressions, but to overcome the stage of how to grow this vocabulary.
"The language that digests, it lives," he said, expressing the refusal of some linguists to Arabize foreign words despite their logical arguments, adding to the great challenge.
They face it to keep up with the speed of the global movement in the Arabization of words to be part of the identity of the Arabic language, rather than arbitrary attempts to find a counterpart of the Arabic vocabulary.
Dr. Al-Wachmi replied, “The role of the media in the use of the Arabic language? ”
“Today ’ s media has swelled dramatically and we have to look at other distinctive aspects, for example, there is a special broadcaster or sports commentator who always uses a distinctive linguistic repertoire reflected on his comment on the game and also there is an influencer in the Twitter platform who gives a speech and may have more impact on young people than language dictionaries, ” he said.
Al-Washmi revealed through the Saudi channel screen the establishment of the artificial intelligence center for processing the Arabic language, which includes a set of factors to make the language for everyone, and the qualitative challenges that the majority of linguists are not proficient in technical matters, noting the Arabic language program, which aims to involve all linguists and computationists around the world and provide a set of challenges that linguists have faced since ancient times.
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- The Secretary-General of the Academy emphasized that "a language that digests is one that lives," acknowledging the need to incorporate foreign terms while maintaining Arabic identity.

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Content: 16: 46, 01 December 2022
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Emezing experience: in Russia can ban advertising with foreign inscriptions
To fight for culture
The State Duma will consider a bill to ban advertising using foreign languages.
Photo: Rassvetnews.ru
For use in advertising, it is proposed to prohibit alphabets created not on the graphic basis of Cyrillic.
The authors of the bill, senators Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi believe that, since foreign language elements predominate in advertising at the moment, this information flow contributes to the wrong perception of culture.
If the bill is adopted, inscriptions in other languages can be used only to indicate the company names and trademarks that have passed state registration.
At the same time, the already registered trademarks and trade names will not be affected by the restrictions.
“The problem of cleansing the literary Russian language from excessive borrowing is constantly discussed at all levels of government.
The adoption of this bill will protect the use of Cyrillic letters in an advertising environment that is public, ” the explanatory note says.
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Content: Farewell briefing and fact-checking!
Officials who juggle foreign words in their official speeches and documents without much reason and meaning must learn to be more restrained, otherwise they will have to spend all their salaries on fines.
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Content: Culture and ArtsHighlights
“In Public ” Reveals the Challenges of Localizing Foreign Words
Regions _ Riyadh
The Secretary General of the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, Dr. Abdullah Al-Washmi, revealed to the program “In Public ” the existence of an entire sector in the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, explaining part of his concerns in the interest of the Arabic language as a global language that should not be subject to initial impressions, but to overcome the stage of how to grow this vocabulary.
"The language that digests, it lives," he said, expressing the refusal of some linguists to Arabize foreign words despite their logical arguments, adding to the great challenge.
They face it to keep up with the speed of the global movement in the Arabization of words to be part of the identity of the Arabic language, rather than arbitrary attempts to find a counterpart of the Arabic vocabulary.
Dr. Al-Wachmi replied, “The role of the media in the use of the Arabic language? ”
“Today ’ s media has swelled dramatically and we have to look at other distinctive aspects, for example, there is a special broadcaster or sports commentator who always uses a distinctive linguistic repertoire reflected on his comment on the game and also there is an influencer in the Twitter platform who gives a speech and may have more impact on young people than language dictionaries, ” he said.
Al-Washmi revealed through the Saudi channel screen the establishment of the artificial intelligence center for processing the Arabic language, which includes a set of factors to make the language for everyone, and the qualitative challenges that the majority of linguists are not proficient in technical matters, noting the Arabic language program, which aims to involve all linguists and computationists around the world and provide a set of challenges that linguists have faced since ancient times.
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### Challenges in Arabization
- The Academy faces challenges in keeping pace with the rapid global linguistic changes.

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Content: Culture and ArtsHighlights
“In Public ” Reveals the Challenges of Localizing Foreign Words
Regions _ Riyadh
The Secretary General of the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, Dr. Abdullah Al-Washmi, revealed to the program “In Public ” the existence of an entire sector in the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, explaining part of his concerns in the interest of the Arabic language as a global language that should not be subject to initial impressions, but to overcome the stage of how to grow this vocabulary.
"The language that digests, it lives," he said, expressing the refusal of some linguists to Arabize foreign words despite their logical arguments, adding to the great challenge.
They face it to keep up with the speed of the global movement in the Arabization of words to be part of the identity of the Arabic language, rather than arbitrary attempts to find a counterpart of the Arabic vocabulary.
Dr. Al-Wachmi replied, “The role of the media in the use of the Arabic language? ”
“Today ’ s media has swelled dramatically and we have to look at other distinctive aspects, for example, there is a special broadcaster or sports commentator who always uses a distinctive linguistic repertoire reflected on his comment on the game and also there is an influencer in the Twitter platform who gives a speech and may have more impact on young people than language dictionaries, ” he said.
Al-Washmi revealed through the Saudi channel screen the establishment of the artificial intelligence center for processing the Arabic language, which includes a set of factors to make the language for everyone, and the qualitative challenges that the majority of linguists are not proficient in technical matters, noting the Arabic language program, which aims to involve all linguists and computationists around the world and provide a set of challenges that linguists have faced since ancient times.
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- There is ongoing debate about how to Arabize foreign words, with some linguists rejecting forced Arabization despite logical arguments.

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Content: Culture and ArtsHighlights
“In Public ” Reveals the Challenges of Localizing Foreign Words
Regions _ Riyadh
The Secretary General of the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, Dr. Abdullah Al-Washmi, revealed to the program “In Public ” the existence of an entire sector in the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, explaining part of his concerns in the interest of the Arabic language as a global language that should not be subject to initial impressions, but to overcome the stage of how to grow this vocabulary.
"The language that digests, it lives," he said, expressing the refusal of some linguists to Arabize foreign words despite their logical arguments, adding to the great challenge.
They face it to keep up with the speed of the global movement in the Arabization of words to be part of the identity of the Arabic language, rather than arbitrary attempts to find a counterpart of the Arabic vocabulary.
Dr. Al-Wachmi replied, “The role of the media in the use of the Arabic language? ”
“Today ’ s media has swelled dramatically and we have to look at other distinctive aspects, for example, there is a special broadcaster or sports commentator who always uses a distinctive linguistic repertoire reflected on his comment on the game and also there is an influencer in the Twitter platform who gives a speech and may have more impact on young people than language dictionaries, ” he said.
Al-Washmi revealed through the Saudi channel screen the establishment of the artificial intelligence center for processing the Arabic language, which includes a set of factors to make the language for everyone, and the qualitative challenges that the majority of linguists are not proficient in technical matters, noting the Arabic language program, which aims to involve all linguists and computationists around the world and provide a set of challenges that linguists have faced since ancient times.
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- The Academy aims to involve everyone in viewing Arabic as a language of civilization, culture, and extended meanings.

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Content: Culture and ArtsHighlights
“In Public ” Reveals the Challenges of Localizing Foreign Words
Regions _ Riyadh
The Secretary General of the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, Dr. Abdullah Al-Washmi, revealed to the program “In Public ” the existence of an entire sector in the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, explaining part of his concerns in the interest of the Arabic language as a global language that should not be subject to initial impressions, but to overcome the stage of how to grow this vocabulary.
"The language that digests, it lives," he said, expressing the refusal of some linguists to Arabize foreign words despite their logical arguments, adding to the great challenge.
They face it to keep up with the speed of the global movement in the Arabization of words to be part of the identity of the Arabic language, rather than arbitrary attempts to find a counterpart of the Arabic vocabulary.
Dr. Al-Wachmi replied, “The role of the media in the use of the Arabic language? ”
“Today ’ s media has swelled dramatically and we have to look at other distinctive aspects, for example, there is a special broadcaster or sports commentator who always uses a distinctive linguistic repertoire reflected on his comment on the game and also there is an influencer in the Twitter platform who gives a speech and may have more impact on young people than language dictionaries, ” he said.
Al-Washmi revealed through the Saudi channel screen the establishment of the artificial intelligence center for processing the Arabic language, which includes a set of factors to make the language for everyone, and the qualitative challenges that the majority of linguists are not proficient in technical matters, noting the Arabic language program, which aims to involve all linguists and computationists around the world and provide a set of challenges that linguists have faced since ancient times.
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### Linguistic Adaptation Mechanisms
Arabic has traditional mechanisms for incorporating foreign words:
- Arabic has a natural "immune system" and innate protection mechanism for regulating the "naturalization" of foreign words through Arabization.

- The famous grammarian Ibn Jinni established the principle that "what is measured on the speech of Arabs is part of their speech.

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- Arabic handles foreign proper names in various ways, sometimes keeping them in their original form (like Sibawayh) and sometimes modifying them to fit Arabic phonology (like Herakleios to Herakl).

## Algeria: Linguistic Transition

Algeria presents an interesting case of linguistic transition from French to English borrowings:

- Many Algerians now pronounce food items like "mille-feuille" in French, while newer food items carry names in English (hamburger), Turkish/Shami (shawarma), or Mexican (tacos).

- Many businesses have transitioned from French to English terminology, including makeup shops, barbershops, gyms, pharmacies, language schools, mobile phone stores, and computer stores.

- Some business owners view using English alongside Arabic as "normal and necessary" for connecting with the globalized world.

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Content: Culture and ArtsHighlights
“In Public ” Reveals the Challenges of Localizing Foreign Words
Regions _ Riyadh
The Secretary General of the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, Dr. Abdullah Al-Washmi, revealed to the program “In Public ” the existence of an entire sector in the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, explaining part of his concerns in the interest of the Arabic language as a global language that should not be subject to initial impressions, but to overcome the stage of how to grow this vocabulary.
"The language that digests, it lives," he said, expressing the refusal of some linguists to Arabize foreign words despite their logical arguments, adding to the great challenge.
They face it to keep up with the speed of the global movement in the Arabization of words to be part of the identity of the Arabic language, rather than arbitrary attempts to find a counterpart of the Arabic vocabulary.
Dr. Al-Wachmi replied, “The role of the media in the use of the Arabic language? ”
“Today ’ s media has swelled dramatically and we have to look at other distinctive aspects, for example, there is a special broadcaster or sports commentator who always uses a distinctive linguistic repertoire reflected on his comment on the game and also there is an influencer in the Twitter platform who gives a speech and may have more impact on young people than language dictionaries, ” he said.
Al-Washmi revealed through the Saudi channel screen the establishment of the artificial intelligence center for processing the Arabic language, which includes a set of factors to make the language for everyone, and the qualitative challenges that the majority of linguists are not proficient in technical matters, noting the Arabic language program, which aims to involve all linguists and computationists around the world and provide a set of challenges that linguists have faced since ancient times.
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- Despite these borrowings, Arabic remains the primary language in official contexts.

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Content: 16: 46, 01 December 2022
1 min.
Emezing experience: in Russia can ban advertising with foreign inscriptions
To fight for culture
The State Duma will consider a bill to ban advertising using foreign languages.
Photo: Rassvetnews.ru
For use in advertising, it is proposed to prohibit alphabets created not on the graphic basis of Cyrillic.
The authors of the bill, senators Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi believe that, since foreign language elements predominate in advertising at the moment, this information flow contributes to the wrong perception of culture.
If the bill is adopted, inscriptions in other languages can be used only to indicate the company names and trademarks that have passed state registration.
At the same time, the already registered trademarks and trade names will not be affected by the restrictions.
“The problem of cleansing the literary Russian language from excessive borrowing is constantly discussed at all levels of government.
The adoption of this bill will protect the use of Cyrillic letters in an advertising environment that is public, ” the explanatory note says.
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Content: Farewell briefing and fact-checking!
Officials who juggle foreign words in their official speeches and documents without much reason and meaning must learn to be more restrained, otherwise they will have to spend all their salaries on fines.
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## Political and Sociocultural Dimensions

### Political Motivations
Language regulation often serves political purposes:
- As noted in one document, regulating speech content "poses the inherent risk that the Government seeks not to advance a legitimate regulatory goal, but to suppress unpopular ideas or information.

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Content: State Legislature Passes Bill Restricting Pharmacist Speech About Ivermectin and Hydroxycholoroquine

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From a Missouri bill (HB 2149), which is apparently now heading to the Governor for approval or veto:

A pharmacist shall not contact the prescribing physician or the patient to dispute the efficacy of ivermectin tablets or hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets for human use unless the physician or patient inquires of the pharmacist about the efficacy of ivermectin tablets or hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets.

Seems to me like an unconstitutional speech restriction. To be sure, the government may restrict professional-client speech in some situations where it can't restrict it in other contexts. (Consider the fact that some speaking professions, such as psychotherapy, may require a license in the first place, or that giving negligent professional opinions or predictions to a client may be malpractice even if a newspaper columnist or blogger can't be sued for such speech.) Nonetheless, courts have recognized that professional-client speech is indeed entitled to considerable constitutional protection, see, e.g., Wollschlaeger v. Governor (11th Cir. 2017) (en banc). To quote the Supreme Court's opinion in NIFLA v. Becerra (2018),

The dangers associated with content-based regulations of speech are also present in the context of professional speech. As with other kinds of speech, regulating the content of professionals' speech "pose[s] the inherent risk that the Government seeks not to advance a legitimate regulatory goal, but to suppress unpopular ideas or information."

Take medicine, for example. "Doctors help patients make deeply personal decisions, and their candor is crucial." Throughout history, governments have "manipulat[ed] the content of doctor-patient discourse" to increase state power and suppress minorities:

"For example, during the Cultural Revolution, Chinese physicians were dispatched to the countryside to convince peasants to use contraception. In the 1930s, the Soviet government expedited completion of a construction project on the Siberian railroad by ordering doctors to both reject requests for medical leave from work and conceal this government order from their patients. In Nazi Germany, the Third Reich systematically violated the separation between state ideology and medical discourse. German physicians were taught that they owed a higher duty to the 'health of the Volk' than to the health of individual patients. Recently, Nicolae Ceausescu's strategy to increase the Romanian birth rate included prohibitions against giving advice to patients about the use of birth control devices and disseminating information about the use of condoms as a means of preventing the transmission of AIDS." [Paula] Berg, Toward a First Amendment Theory of Doctor-Patient Discourse and the Right To Receive Unbiased Medical Advice, 74 B.U.L. Rev. 201 (1994).

Further, when the government polices the content of professional speech, it can fail to "'preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail.'" Professionals might have a host of good-faith disagreements, both with each other and with the government, on many topics in their respective fields. Doctors and nurses might disagree about the ethics of assisted suicide or the benefits of medical marijuana; lawyers and marriage counselors might disagree about the prudence of prenuptial agreements or the wisdom of divorce; bankers and accountants might disagree about the amount of money that should be devoted to savings or the benefits of tax reform. "[T]he best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market," and the people lose when the government is the one deciding which ideas should prevail.

Seems to me to fully apply to the ban on pharmacist speech here. A state legislature may of course ban pharmacists' from refusing to dispense prescribed drugs. But it may not ban pharmacists from merely speaking about such drugs in by disputing their efficacy (at least unless the ban is limited to opinions that would qualify as incompetent medical advice, and nothing in the statute so limits the ban). Thanks to commenter IntelligentMrToad for the pointer.

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- Historical examples show governments manipulating discourse to increase state power and suppress minorities.

- The reference to Orwell's "1984" concepts like Newspeak and Thought Police highlights concerns about language control as a means of thought control.

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Content: Our War of Words – Hint: We’re Losing

One of the major fronts on the war between progressives – who want to tear down and reshape America – against those of us who believe that America should be closer to what our Founding Fathers had in mind – can be defined as a War on Words.

Sadly, this war is very real – and even more sadly, so far, we are losing that war.  Much of the progressives’ ability to succeed in forcing all of society to bow to their whims is that they have an almost unique ability to change the meaning of words – or even make up words – the better to suit their goals.  This is most evident in the vast expansion of the concept “hate speech,” speech made criminal because words don’t just inspire violence, they are violence, which is illegal.  From hate speech comes the concepts of “trigger words,” and “violence-free zones,” and long lists of words we may not say … unless we’re progressives, actively denouncing hate speech words.

Once progressives impose their new words and alternate meanings on us – usually starting with the dual conflict arenas – college campuses and the national news media – we conservatives seem remarkably unable to risk resisting the power of words.

Unfortunately, words and meanings do have power, and whether consciously or because of an unconscious groupthink, progressives are indeed winning the war for the use of words and meanings to control society.

A recent weapon in the progressive’s War on Words has been their cancel culture.   This recent phenomenon has caused people – even people of real power – to lose their jobs, their reputations, their families.  Cancel culture is immensely violent – but since the warriors are progressive, “that’s O.K.” in a way it would never be acceptable if conservatives used the same words and tactics toward their own ends.

Bottom line: When we don’t resist, we cede to the progressives a power over their imposed cultural constructs, which in turn define the way we work, the way we live – and, literally – the way we think.

A few quick examples.  In one context, the word “choice” means having control over our bodies, meaning abortion.  However, in another context, choice means which schools our children attend.  Recently, this term has gotten more convoluted.  In the context of “choice” meaning the privacy of our bodies there's abortion on demand.  However, bodily choice is also applied to personal choice in another realm – vaccinations against COVID-19 – and to progressives, choice suddenly means something else. Progressives assert that mere citizens don’t have the right to choose to NOT have their COVID shots.  Should we try to exercise our false choice to abstain from being forcibly vaccinated, we can be victimized by job loss, travel restrictions or other arcane discrimination.  But that’s O.K..  In this case, “choice” means the progressive left can force us to get shots because they have the “choice” to be safe from vaccine deniers.

Another example, the word “phobia.”  As defined by the Oxford Dictionary, phobia is “an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.”  But the way progressives use phobia, when they apply it to their own core constituencies, it means “hatred against something.”  Hence, transphobia, which should mean “fear of trans” becomes “hate of all things trans.”  This usage has been extended to fatphobia and other new “phobia” words, standing any “hyphenated-phobia” word on its head.

Another widespread and egregious example is the word racism.  Until five minutes ago, racism had only described people who violently hated other people because of their race, not their actions.  Then, racist was easy to identify.  A racist actively discriminated against blacks or Hispanics, Asians, or “other” physically-identifiable groups.  In doing so, these haters used every tool from Jim Crow to Judge Lynch to enforce a harsh criticism against members of those “other” races.  The horrific Jim Crow and Judge Lynch excesses found in the Deep South after the Civil War, were also found in the North and Midwest – but not until after World Wars I and II.  During those two wars, while white men were overseas by the million, fighting against truly racist regimes in Germany and Japan, and white workers’ absence in factories required replacements.  Blacks abandoned share-cropper farms in droves, relocating for better-paying jobs in the North and Midwest.  This led to violence – not “violent words,” but violent actions.  These first manifested themselves in the early 1920s with the rebirth – in the North and Midwest – of the KKK.  The hatred and violence by some whites toward blacks became harsher during the Great Depression, when everyone was suffering.  Many unemployed whites asserted their superiority over blacks – often violently – in order to not feel like they themselves were at the bottom of society’s ladder.

However, blacks weren’t the only victims of violent racism.  The Klan also targeted Jews and eastern Europeans in the Midwest and North. Most Americans know of President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to intern all West Coast Japanese – even Americans citizens born of Japanese parents or grandparents – into concentration camps for much of the Second World War.  But most don’t realize Japanese antipathy toward America’s racism stemmed from San Francisco’s 1904 demands to exclude Japanese immigration from the U.S., culminating in the “Gentlemen’s Agreement” of 1907, agreed to by President Theodore Roosevelt, which “voluntarily” curtailed Japanese immigration.  Despite the fact that Japan and America became allies during the First World War, the Gentlemen’s Agreement ultimately led to a ban of all Japanese immigrants, and was enacted as the U.S. Immigration Act of 1924.  The antipathy this aroused in Japan made the Pacific War between the US and Japan in 1941-45 all but inevitable.  The one-time allies hated each other, primarily because of racism.

Racism manifests as either physical violence or overt discrimination.  Violence is clear, but let’s consider overt discrimination.  In the late 1950s, lily-white Deerfield, Illinois won a Supreme Court decision that allowed the township to block the sales of “open housing” to blacks as long as the land was turned into public parks.  At the same time, the town of Cummins, Georgia had a public policy manifested by their slogan, “The sun never sets over a black head.”  More than 1,000 blacks were forcibly driven from the county in 1912, beginning with a lynching.  This ban remained in force for 75 years, until 1987.

The progressives have also succeeded in redefining recently created terms, such as “denier.”  Originally used to identify anti-Semitic propagandists who alleged that the Holocaust Hitler’s Germany – inflicted on six and a half Jews, along with Gypsies, homosexuals and other so-called sub-humans – never happened.  Hence “deniers.”  However, today’s progressives use that word to identify those who don’t agree with the groupthink that claims that the worst fears of climate change are not just wrong, but dangerous.  They go on to claim that no other perspective is possible, citing the ascientific notion of “settled science.”

Etymology has remarkable power, when we let the progressives get away with this coup de main. A surprise attack on the way we form thoughts, as well as how words create actions – is has terrifying implications.  This is not new to progressives – but their use of it is unprecedented.  George Orwell’s most famous work, 1984, postulated a dictatorial state where thoughts are controlled by altering the meaning of words.  It gave us words such as Newspeak, Thoughtcrime, Crimethink, Doublespeak and Thought Police.

What is this War on Words?  An excellent example is the concerted effort to classify words as violence.  This is at the heart of the woke movement so prevalent on college campuses.

Ned Barnett is a long-time conservative political activist.  He is currently helping authors by ghostwriting or coaching them in their work, editing and marketing books and their authors.  A lifelong author himself, with 40 books published and more on the way, Barnett has “gone to school” on wokeness and the progressives’ war on words.  He can be reached at nedbarnett51@gmail.com or 702-561-1167.

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### Public Reception
Government efforts to regulate language often face public skepticism:
- A Russian journalist mocked the initiative by jokingly suggesting replacing "president" with "tsar" and "deputy" with "boyar.

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Content: Norkin just one joke about the tsar and boyars brought the audience of the “Meeting Place ” to tears
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Russian journalist Andrei Norkin periodically amuses the audience of the “Meeting Place ” with various sarcastic stories or anecdotes.
This time he brought the audience to tears with a joke about kings and boyars.
Within the framework of one of the programs, the topic of introducing a ban on the use of borrowed words in speeches of civil servants was touched upon.
According to the initiators of the bill, these measures will help preserve the Russian language and save it from foreign language.
In this regard, Norkin decided to laugh at the absurdity of this initiative.
“The State Duma adopted a law on borrowed words.
In this regard, the term "president" changes to the term "tsar", the term "deputy" changes to the term "boyar", and the term "term" changes to the term "concept", "Norkin said.
Earlier it was reported that deputies of the State Duma prepared a bill that implies criminal liability for repeated violation of the ban on LGBT propaganda.

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- This satirical response suggests that some view these language regulations as absurd or unnecessarily restrictive.

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Content: Norkin just one joke about the tsar and boyars brought the audience of the “Meeting Place ” to tears
Society
Russian journalist Andrei Norkin periodically amuses the audience of the “Meeting Place ” with various sarcastic stories or anecdotes.
This time he brought the audience to tears with a joke about kings and boyars.
Within the framework of one of the programs, the topic of introducing a ban on the use of borrowed words in speeches of civil servants was touched upon.
According to the initiators of the bill, these measures will help preserve the Russian language and save it from foreign language.
In this regard, Norkin decided to laugh at the absurdity of this initiative.
“The State Duma adopted a law on borrowed words.
In this regard, the term "president" changes to the term "tsar", the term "deputy" changes to the term "boyar", and the term "term" changes to the term "concept", "Norkin said.
Earlier it was reported that deputies of the State Duma prepared a bill that implies criminal liability for repeated violation of the ban on LGBT propaganda.

### Practical Considerations
Language regulations must balance preservation with practicality:
- The Krasnodar case emphasizes accessibility as a justification for requiring Russian signage.

- The Algerian example shows how businesses adapt to global linguistic trends for practical reasons.

- The Arabic Academy acknowledges the challenge of keeping pace with global linguistic changes.

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Content: Culture and ArtsHighlights
“In Public ” Reveals the Challenges of Localizing Foreign Words
Regions _ Riyadh
The Secretary General of the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, Dr. Abdullah Al-Washmi, revealed to the program “In Public ” the existence of an entire sector in the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, explaining part of his concerns in the interest of the Arabic language as a global language that should not be subject to initial impressions, but to overcome the stage of how to grow this vocabulary.
"The language that digests, it lives," he said, expressing the refusal of some linguists to Arabize foreign words despite their logical arguments, adding to the great challenge.
They face it to keep up with the speed of the global movement in the Arabization of words to be part of the identity of the Arabic language, rather than arbitrary attempts to find a counterpart of the Arabic vocabulary.
Dr. Al-Wachmi replied, “The role of the media in the use of the Arabic language? ”
“Today ’ s media has swelled dramatically and we have to look at other distinctive aspects, for example, there is a special broadcaster or sports commentator who always uses a distinctive linguistic repertoire reflected on his comment on the game and also there is an influencer in the Twitter platform who gives a speech and may have more impact on young people than language dictionaries, ” he said.
Al-Washmi revealed through the Saudi channel screen the establishment of the artificial intelligence center for processing the Arabic language, which includes a set of factors to make the language for everyone, and the qualitative challenges that the majority of linguists are not proficient in technical matters, noting the Arabic language program, which aims to involve all linguists and computationists around the world and provide a set of challenges that linguists have faced since ancient times.
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## Conclusion

Government efforts to prevent borrowings in state languages take various forms, from legislative measures in Russia to institutional approaches in Arabic-speaking countries.

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Emezing experience: in Russia can ban advertising with foreign inscriptions
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The State Duma will consider a bill to ban advertising using foreign languages.
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For use in advertising, it is proposed to prohibit alphabets created not on the graphic basis of Cyrillic.
The authors of the bill, senators Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi believe that, since foreign language elements predominate in advertising at the moment, this information flow contributes to the wrong perception of culture.
If the bill is adopted, inscriptions in other languages can be used only to indicate the company names and trademarks that have passed state registration.
At the same time, the already registered trademarks and trade names will not be affected by the restrictions.
“The problem of cleansing the literary Russian language from excessive borrowing is constantly discussed at all levels of government.
The adoption of this bill will protect the use of Cyrillic letters in an advertising environment that is public, ” the explanatory note says.
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The law on the state Russian language does not take into account the differences in its use in various fields - from advertising to legal acts.
Common standards can lead to difficulties in complying with the relevant norms.
This was stated by the rector of St. Petersburg University Nikolai Kropachev during the parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council, reports on Tuesday, November 14, “SenatInform ”.
“Strict requirements for compliance with the single can not be met in different areas.
I hope you will support it, ” Kropachev said.
According to the rector of St. Petersburg State University, Russia needs organizational decisions on the unjustified use of foreign words, but for this it is necessary to create a single normative dictionary.
Kropachev noted that he should exclude contradictions in the interpretation and use of words and expressions.
In February 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the inadmissibility of the use of foreign words and the use of Russian as the state language in the areas established by law.
Earlier, the State Duma approved a list of areas where Russian is mandatory for use.
It includes information for consumers of goods, works and services, as well as the education sector, state and municipal information systems.
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These efforts reflect concerns about cultural sovereignty, national identity, and linguistic purity.

However, they also face challenges in implementation, public reception, and balancing preservation with the practical realities of global communication.

The examples presented demonstrate that while governments can attempt to regulate language use through laws and policies, linguistic borrowing remains a complex phenomenon influenced by broader sociocultural, political, and economic factors.

Title:

Content: 16: 46, 01 December 2022
1 min.
Emezing experience: in Russia can ban advertising with foreign inscriptions
To fight for culture
The State Duma will consider a bill to ban advertising using foreign languages.
Photo: Rassvetnews.ru
For use in advertising, it is proposed to prohibit alphabets created not on the graphic basis of Cyrillic.
The authors of the bill, senators Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi believe that, since foreign language elements predominate in advertising at the moment, this information flow contributes to the wrong perception of culture.
If the bill is adopted, inscriptions in other languages can be used only to indicate the company names and trademarks that have passed state registration.
At the same time, the already registered trademarks and trade names will not be affected by the restrictions.
“The problem of cleansing the literary Russian language from excessive borrowing is constantly discussed at all levels of government.
The adoption of this bill will protect the use of Cyrillic letters in an advertising environment that is public, ” the explanatory note says.
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Title:

Content: Norkin just one joke about the tsar and boyars brought the audience of the “Meeting Place ” to tears
Society
Russian journalist Andrei Norkin periodically amuses the audience of the “Meeting Place ” with various sarcastic stories or anecdotes.
This time he brought the audience to tears with a joke about kings and boyars.
Within the framework of one of the programs, the topic of introducing a ban on the use of borrowed words in speeches of civil servants was touched upon.
According to the initiators of the bill, these measures will help preserve the Russian language and save it from foreign language.
In this regard, Norkin decided to laugh at the absurdity of this initiative.
“The State Duma adopted a law on borrowed words.
In this regard, the term "president" changes to the term "tsar", the term "deputy" changes to the term "boyar", and the term "term" changes to the term "concept", "Norkin said.
Earlier it was reported that deputies of the State Duma prepared a bill that implies criminal liability for repeated violation of the ban on LGBT propaganda.

Title:

Content: Culture and ArtsHighlights
“In Public ” Reveals the Challenges of Localizing Foreign Words
Regions _ Riyadh
The Secretary General of the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, Dr. Abdullah Al-Washmi, revealed to the program “In Public ” the existence of an entire sector in the King Salman International Academy of the Arabic Language, explaining part of his concerns in the interest of the Arabic language as a global language that should not be subject to initial impressions, but to overcome the stage of how to grow this vocabulary.
"The language that digests, it lives," he said, expressing the refusal of some linguists to Arabize foreign words despite their logical arguments, adding to the great challenge.
They face it to keep up with the speed of the global movement in the Arabization of words to be part of the identity of the Arabic language, rather than arbitrary attempts to find a counterpart of the Arabic vocabulary.
Dr. Al-Wachmi replied, “The role of the media in the use of the Arabic language? ”
“Today ’ s media has swelled dramatically and we have to look at other distinctive aspects, for example, there is a special broadcaster or sports commentator who always uses a distinctive linguistic repertoire reflected on his comment on the game and also there is an influencer in the Twitter platform who gives a speech and may have more impact on young people than language dictionaries, ” he said.
Al-Washmi revealed through the Saudi channel screen the establishment of the artificial intelligence center for processing the Arabic language, which includes a set of factors to make the language for everyone, and the qualitative challenges that the majority of linguists are not proficient in technical matters, noting the Arabic language program, which aims to involve all linguists and computationists around the world and provide a set of challenges that linguists have faced since ancient times.
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The effectiveness of such interventions varies, and they often spark debates about the relationship between language, identity, and power in an increasingly globalized world.

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Content: From time to time, one of us stands to talk to us alone, and then turns away from our Arabic language for other languages under the pretext of the inability of this language to absorb the shorthand of the times and the techniques of speech today, and ignores the fact that it is our identity before and after, and the language of our official speech in the east and west of the earth. It was not the fault of the Arabic language that its people failed to keep up with the achievements of the era and the civilization of today, and it can not be created without our belief in it, or to flourish when we abandon it in our school books and fail to support it.
Language, any language, has never been but the sign of existence, the truth of knowledge, the act of will, whatever it may be.
But the Arabic language is also distinguished as the language of truth and semantic expression together.
Its sources are the Quran first and it is miraculous words with its systems and not with its provisions, as Abdul Qaher Al-Jarjani says in his book (Quranic Miracles)..
The second of its sources is what the Arabs said before and after, and the Qur ’ an is not revealed to them except to boast of their language, and their greatness of their poets and preachers are people of eloquence and rhetoric, and some of them weaves the word history and language structure. The third of its sources is the metaphor, which preserves the language growth and multiplicity and its many connotations. So with the evolution of semantics and the logic of expression over the ages...
This is what prompts the charge of inertia or failure to keep up with the techniques of contemporary language, as well as the fact that this metaphor is often the dialogue of conscience and the speech of the soul at the hands of poets and philosophers.
So we are in the hands of a language, even though it seems to some at times, we are gathered under the tree of the poem, when poets are born, each time they search for another horizon of speech in which they build meanings that have not been touched before, and there is no way for them to do so except language when meanings were thrown on the road more than a thousand years ago, as Al-Jahiz said. The shadow of a sermon makes history, and the memory falls apart all the time, and is envisioned by events that are in need.
It is always growing and growing and growing over the years.
Poets are born in us even after a while, and writers realize the growth of their language and they grow with it, and mature media takes us to new linguistic structures that grow within us without us being aware of them.
We are the people of a language that is stagnant only when we freeze without believing in it.
We do not drop it except to justify our inability to carry it to the civilizations of other languages.
Every lack of language, if it were not for the fact that we are a nation that has lagged behind other nations in science and knowledge, yet this language has preserved their progress, even at the level of expression, and cannot do more than this, even if it turns into an accusation and a sin when it was said at some time that the Arabs are a phonetic phenomenon.
Live our language and live by it when we cannot be other than it.
Ebrahim Alwafi