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Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the official language throughout the Arab world, and, in its written form, it is relatively consistent across national boundaries. MSA is used in official documents, in educational settings, and for communication between Arabs of different nationalities.
Arabic | |
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Native speakers | 292 million (2017) |
Language family | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic |
Standard forms | Modern Standard Arabic |
Arabic | |
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Ethnicity | Arabs and the original peoples of the Middle East and North Africa (as a result of language shift) |
Native speakers | 350 million, all varieties (2011–2020) 270 million L2 speakers of Modern Standard Arabic |
Language family | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic North Arabian Arabic |
Arabic is another language with a non-Latin alphabet. Its 28 script letters are easier for English speakers to comprehend than the thousands of Chinese characters, but it’s still an adjustment to become familiar with a new writing system. … There are also characteristics of spoken Arabic that make it hard to learn.
No. | 7. |
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Sovereign state | Iraq |
Population | 36,004,552 |
Notes | Co-official language, along with Kurdish |
Member state of the Arab League | Yes |
In fact, Farsi is not only in a separate language group from Arabic but it’s also in a separate language family. Arabic is in the Afro-Asiatic family while Farsi is in the Indo-European family.
To be an Arab, like an American, is a cultural trait rather than racial. The Arab world includes Muslims, Christians and Jews. Any person who adopts the Arabic language is typically called an Arab. Arabic is the official and the original language of the Qur’an, the Islamic holy book.
Lebanese people, regardless of the region or religion, tend to be predominantly of indigenous Levantine descent rather than peninsula Arab ancestrally. Recent studies show that the majority of the Lebanese people’s genetic makeup today is shared with that of ancient Canaanite peoples native to the area.
As mentioned before, Mandarin is unanimously considered the toughest language to master in the world! Spoken by over a billion people in the world, the language can be extremely difficult for people whose native languages use the Latin writing system.
It’s easy to begin the journey of learning Arabic, but challenging to see it through. Mastering the language will require years of study, but gaining conversation skills can come quickly if you dedicate yourself to the pursuit.
The short answer: The Quran. The long answer: When the Quran was revealed to Muhammad ﷺ there were different dialects spoken. The Quran was even revealed in different dialects.
Overview of Algeria
Ethnically, the nation is overwhelmingly Arab-Berber, and the vast majority of citizens are Sunni Muslims. Arabic is the national language, but various Berber dialects and French also are spoken. The World Bank classifies Algeria as an upper-middle income nation.
More than 30 languages are spoken in Afghanistan. The main languages are Dari (Afghan Persian) and Pashto (an eastern Iranian language). … Dari and Pashtu, written with Arabic letters, are Afghanistan’s official languages. Additionally, there are a number of national languages.
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The hardest are Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian because they mix French and Arabic. They have some words that are totally different from MSA. For example, Moroccans say “الزنجلان” which is “سمسم” in MSA and Egyptian.
To an outsider, Egypt is in fact an Arab country. The reality on the ground, though, is slightly different. Many Egyptians prefer to call themselves Egyptians and some shun the Arab label completely. … So Egyptians are not genetically Arabs, but they may be so culturally and linguistically.
Egypt (Arabic: مِصر, romanized: Miṣr), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.
Since Persian is an Indo-European language, it is not linguistically related to Arabic. The countries that speak Persian, such as Iran, do share many cultural traits with the Arabic-speaking world. … If you see these letters “گ چ پ”, it’s obvious the text is not Arabic, but it could still be Kurdish.
Persian is an easier language to learn and it’s more homogenous in the different countries where it’s spoken. Arabic on the other hand is extremely difficult and has huge regional differences which means that you’ll have to choose a dialect to focus on.
Proto-Arabs are presumed to have originated from what is now modern-day Hejaz and Najd in Saudi Arabia. Arabs spread from there to the central and southern parts of the Levant, sometimes replacing previously spoken Semitic languages.