FULL STOP IN ARABIC LANGUAGE

Vitali Vasiliev
Junior research scientist, Institute for African Studies, Russian Federation, ismivity@gmail.com

Abstract

Punctuation is one of important part of writing system each language. Arabic punctuation system toke his place after publishing of work A.Zaki.  Ahmad Zaki was one of the leading Arabic illuminers of the early twentieth century, and he became famous by his work “Punctuation and punctuation marks in the Arabic language”. It shall be stated that, although punctuation marks and its rules were adopted in the Arabic language more than 100 years ago, punctuation usage has not been fully established till the present day.

One of the important parts of self-identification of each nation is language. Often speech is regarded as language. Writing graphical system at the same time remains as relevant essential element. Some time it happens under influence of another system. Some researchers for description this phenomenon use terms “fascinatio” that means such impression sign’s and attention arresting and process evoke associations the viewer.

The graphical system as well oral speech passes periods of changes and modifying. Isocracy of Arabic writing system is circumstances and period of formation. Since the Quran became the most important factor for the emergence and development of writing, its “sacredness” passed not only to the Arabic language itself, but also to its graphic system.

In this regard of special interest is punctuation. With the translation of books, with acquaintance with European languages, Arabs inquired about punctuation systems. One of first who began to say necessity introduction of punctuation was Faris Shidyak after acquaintance whit it in during translation of the English manual. However, this caused a rather wide dispute, since they saw in this a threat not only to their own language, but also to their own independence, perceiving it as an element of European colonial policy.

Keywords: Arabic, punctuation, Full stop