What others said about Arabic Read in the original
“Only two languages of the East have come down from the primeval age of history, through the Middle Ages, to our own day, preserved unchanged in books and in the mouths of the people: Chinese and Arabic. In these two alone has the unalterable constancy of a sustaining vital force proved itself victorious from the remotest age to the most recent. Which language of the West has kept the forms of its grammar unchanged for twelve hundred years, or even for half a millennium, and kept the oldest monuments of its literature intelligible today, not only to the scholar but to the whole people, as they were then — as Chinese and Arabic have?”
Original text — German
In Arabic
Source
He goes on to credit the Qur'an with fixing the language. The claim about the spoken language overstates; the closing question is the strong part. The earliest printed form we found of the comparison later circulated under Germanus's name.
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