Time to rejuvenate English board

Originally non-arabic speaking as Nubian and born as such but been taught arabic same as english at schools...However` my generation
of Nubian has been forced at elemntary schools not to use our Nubiin language and if someone caught using it then he/she was whipped harshly...
I do not think that at thoses days Nubian had any objection to learn another language ..Several of our relatives who used to work as cooks , watchmen and managers of houses for British or migrated to Egypt and eslewhere used to talk arabic and english, french and some of them Italian and German...Regretfully the decision of forcing Arabic language on Nubian as such was a Sudanese Government decision!!! At those days and till now a good number of Sudanese insist to find own identity in the "arabic language" or believe that it shall give them "identity"..
To add salt to injury the only and main media outlet "Hona Umdurman" Radio Braodcasting was not allowing songs in any other one of the several Sudanese languages but Arabic only....I was a kid but still recall that Wardi was not allowed to sing in Nubiin when he was introduced to Umdurman Radio then there was some frenzy mediation to allow him sing " alliyala ya samra"
Anyway I always take languages as tools and media of communication and containers of cultural elements to some extent...Surprsingly enough this language which we have been forced to learn and abandon our mother tongue for it has not helped us much in our work life and education...Even when I migrated to the arabian peninsula I found out that English and not Arabic is work language as well as overwhelmingly media of communication among the wider sector of expatriates...
Arabic language is a very charismatic one and definitely helped us to know our Islamic Religion well but being mainly dependent on it's literary values and with no industrial input shall always deprive who speaks it from better use of it...
Couple of months back a famous British Linguist said that English shall cease to exisit as the main language in this world within the next 300 years if China continues to expand it's industries and Chinses shall be the main language...He referred to Persian language which dominated the world for 700 years when Persia dominated the world and the Latin for 1000 years before that..etc...
BTW: The most famous and accredited arabic linguist "Sibawyh (Abū Bishr ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān ibn Qanbar Al-Bishrī) was a Persian!!

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