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Arabic belongs to the Afroasiatic language family and is a\u00a0Semitic language of the Arabo-Canaanite subgroup \u2013 therefore closely related to Hebrew or Phoenician.<\/p>\n
With approximately\u00a0290\u00a0million speakers (of Modern Standard Arabic), it ranks in sixth place among the world\u2019s major languages. In today’s form, Modern Standard Arabic happens to be an official language of 27 states. Only English and French score higher.\u00a0As the Arabic world is very large, it is not surprising that a large number of Arabic dialects have developed \u2013 counting all these, the number of Arabic speakers rises to an estimated 420 million.\u00a0Arabic is the language of the Holy Quran, poetry and literature as well as an official UN language. As a liturgical language of Islam, it is used by an astonishing 1.6 billion Muslims.<\/p>\n
Arabic is a so-called sociolinguistic language, which means that from a purely linguistic view it’s actually a group of familiar languages. For cultural (e.g. religious) or socioeconomic reasons it is considered as one language, though, despite that there are branches of Arabic that are mutually unintelligible.\u00a0Arabic can be sub-classified as follows: Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Arabic. Obviously there’s also a large number of dialects.<\/p>\n
Classical Arabic (or Quranic Arabic) is used as the language of prayer and recitation throughout the Islamic world. Modern Standard Arabic, a constituted version of the language, is, though intelligible, much distinct from the spoken variants of Arabic dialects (with no observable boundaries or rules). The official constituted form of Arabic\u00a0actually co-exist in common usage with\u00a0various Arabic dialects\u00a0while covering different social situations.<\/p>\n
Because of Muslim expansion in the past, Arabic has influenced a lot of the world’s languages, including Indian languages such as Urdu (which is in fact a Muslim influenced version of Hindi \u2013 that was actually also previously influenced by Arabic), Punjabi or Bengali. Also Roman languages, mainly Spanish, Catalan or Portuguese, borrowed many expressions from Arabic in the middle ages, when the Muslim world represented the cultural and scientific drive in then decimated Europe.<\/p>\n
The Arabic alphabet has twenty-eight (28) letters.\u00a0Arabic differs from Latin languages in that it is written right to left, but sequences of digits, such as telephone\u00a0numbers,\u00a0read from left to right.<\/p>\n
\u0623 \u0628 \u062a \u062b \u062c \u062d \u062e \u062f \u0630 \u0631 \u0632 \u0633 \u0634 \u0635 \u0636 \u0637 \u0638 \u0639 \u063a \u0641 \u0642 \u0643 \u0644 \u0645 \u0646 \u0647 \u0648 \u064a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arabic belongs to the Afroasiatic language family and is a\u00a0Semitic language of the Arabo-Canaanite subgroup \u2013 therefore closely related to Hebrew or Phoenician. With approximately\u00a0290\u00a0million speakers (of Modern Standard Arabic), it ranks in sixth place among the world\u2019s major languages. In today’s form, Modern Standard Arabic happens to be an official language of 27 states. …<\/p>\n