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Arabic

Arabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic.

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Dialects
Central Asian · Chadian · Egyptian · Levantine · Maghrebi
Early forms
Proto-Semitic Proto-Arabic Old Arabic Pre-classical Arabic · Proto-Arabic Old Arabic Pre-classical Arabic · Old Arabic Pre-classical Arabic · Pre-classical Arabic
Ethnicity
Arabs, and other ethnic groups of the Arab world
Glottolog
arab1395
ISO 639-1
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ISO 639-2
ara

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Classification

History

Classical, Modern Standard and spoken Arabic

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Vocabulary

Spoken varieties

Phonology

Grammar

Writing system

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Arabic

Nodes530
Edges529
Triples704
Avg. degree2
Density0.003774
Components1

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Arabic

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related to Dialect groups · 163
Arabic → Aamiyah, Afghanistan, Algeria, Algerian Arabic, Algerian Jews, Also, Although Gulf Arabic, Andalusian Arabic, Arab, Arab World, Arabian Peninsula, Arabic-speaking, As Jewish, Azawad, Azerbaijan, Baghdad, Baghdad Arabic, Baghdad Jewish Arabic, Baharna Arabic, Bahrain
related to Influence on other languages · 60
Arabic → Amharic, Azerbaijani, Baluchi, Bengali, Berber, Bosnian, Catalan, Chaldean, Chechen, Chittagonian, Croatian, Dagestani, Dhivehi, English, Examples, French, German, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew
Official language in · 34
Arabic → African Union, Algeria, Arab League, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran[a], Iraq, Israel[b], Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
related to Loanwords · 30
Arabic → Alfred-Louis, Antiquité, Aramaic, Classical, De Prémare's, Ethiopic, For, Foundations, Greek, Hellenistic Greek, Histoire, Iranian, Islam, Islamic, L'Univers Historique, Many, Middle East, Middle Persian, Médecine, Near
related to Old Arabic · 26
Arabic → Ancient South Arabian, Arab, Arabia, Arabian Peninsula, ASA, Central Semitic, Dadanitic, Greece, Hasaitic, Hejaz, Hismaic, In, In Najd, It, Mesopotamia, Modern South Arabian, Old Arabic, On, Safaitic, Semitic
related to Neo-Arabic · 20
Arabic → According, Ahmad, Al-Jallad, Andalus, Arabs, Bickerton, Central, Charles Ferguson's, Classical, Cordoba, In, Instead, Islamic, Jallad, Maghreb, MSA, Northern, Pidginization, The, Veersteegh
related to Spread · 19
Arabic → Abbasid, Andalusi Jewish, Baghdad's House, By, Classical Arabic, Classical Greek, Following, For, Hebrew, In, Islam, Islamic, Judeo-Arabic, Maimonides, Middle Persian, Muslim, Muslims, Turkish, Wisdom
related to Writing system · 19
Arabic → Aramaic, Coptic, Cyrillic, Ge'ez, Greek, However, Latin-written Maltese, Maghreb, Maghrebi, Middle Eastern, Nabatean, North African, Quranic, Semitic, The Arabic, There, Traditionally, West Africa, Western
related to Standardization · 18
Arabic → Abu, Ahmad, Akbar, Al-Akhfash, Al-Jahiz, Al-Khalil, Arabs, Aswad, Ayn, Bedouin, Du'ali, Farahidi, Kitāb, Letter, Qur'an, Sībawayhi's, The, The Book
related to Classical Arabic · 17
Arabic → AD, Arabic-writing, Bedouin, Classical Arabic, During, Hejaz, Hijra, In, Islamic, It, Judeo-Christian, Middle Arabic, Najd, Old Higazi, Quran, Their, This

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language spoken languages modern varieties standard used maltese classical dialects semitic arab many latin script speakers also english words world

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ArabicDialectsCentral Asian1.00infobox
ArabicDialectsChadian1.00infobox
ArabicDialectsEgyptian1.00infobox
ArabicDialectsLevantine1.00infobox
ArabicDialectsMaghrebi1.00infobox
ArabicDialectsMesopotamian1.00infobox
ArabicDialectsPeninsular1.00infobox
ArabicDialectsSaʽidi1.00infobox
ArabicDialectsShirvani1.00infobox
ArabicDialectsSudanese1.00infobox
ArabicEarly formsProto-Semitic Proto-Arabic Old Arabic Pre-classical Arabic1.00infobox
ArabicEarly formsProto-Arabic Old Arabic Pre-classical Arabic1.00infobox
ArabicEarly formsOld Arabic Pre-classical Arabic1.00infobox
ArabicEarly formsPre-classical Arabic1.00infobox
ArabicEthnicityArabs, and other ethnic groups of the Arab world1.00infobox
ArabicGlottologarab13951.00infobox
ArabicISO 639-1ar1.00infobox
ArabicISO 639-2ara1.00infobox
ArabicISO 639-3ara – inclusive code Individual codes: arq – Algerian Arabic xaa – Andalusi Arabic abv – Bahrani Arabic avl – Bedawi Arabic shu – Chadian Arabic acy – Cypriot Arabic adf – Dhofa…1.00infobox
ArabicLanguage familySemiticWest SemiticCentral SemiticArabic1.00infobox
ArabicLanguage familyWest SemiticCentral SemiticArabic1.00infobox
ArabicLanguage familyCentral SemiticArabic1.00infobox
ArabicLanguage familyArabic1.00infobox
ArabicLinguasphere12-AAC1.00infobox
ArabicNative toArab world and surrounding regions1.00infobox
ArabicOfficial language inAlgeria1.00infobox
ArabicOfficial language inBahrain1.00infobox
ArabicOfficial language inChad1.00infobox
ArabicOfficial language inComoros1.00infobox
ArabicOfficial language inDjibouti1.00infobox

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