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  2. Modern Standard Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Arabic ( MSA) or Modern Written Arabic ( MWA) [3] is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, [4] [5] and in some usages also the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard. [6] MSA is the language used in literature, academia ...

  3. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    Arwi language (a mixture of Arabic and Tamil) uses the Arabic script together with the addition of 13 letters. It is mainly used in Sri Lanka and the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu for religious purposes. Arwi language is the language of Tamil Muslims. Arabi Malayalam is Malayalam written in the Arabic script.

  4. Varieties of Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [2] Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula. There are considerable variations from region to region, with degrees of mutual intelligibility that are often related ...

  5. Arabic Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic Wikipedia ( Arabic: ويكيبيديا العربية) is the Modern Standard Arabic version of Wikipedia. It started on 9 July 2003. As of May 2024, it has 1,233,254 articles, 2,579,971 registered users and 54,176 files and it is the 17th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 7th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.

  6. Multimedia translation - Wikipedia

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    Multimedia translation, also sometimes referred to as Audiovisual translation, is a specialized branch of translation which deals with the transfer of multimodal and multimedial texts into another language and/or culture. [1] and which implies the use of a multimedia electronic system in the translation or in the transmission process.

  7. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Forms using the Arabic script to write other languages added and removed letters: for example Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Urdu, Sindhi, Azerbaijani, Malay, Acehnese, Banjarese, Javanese, Pashto, Punjabi, Uyghur, Arwi and Arabi Malayalam all have additional letters in their alphabets.

  8. Classification of Arabic languages - Wikipedia

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    Central Semitic. North Arabian. Proto-language. Proto-Arabic. Glottolog. arab1394. The Arabic language family is divided into several categories which are: Old Arabic, the literary varieties, and the modern vernaculars. [1] The genealogical position of Arabic within the group of the Semitic languages has long been a problem.

  9. Algerian Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Algerian Arabic is the native dialect of 75% to 80% of Algerians and is mastered by 85% to 100% of them. [7] It is a spoken language used in daily communication and entertainment, while Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is generally reserved for official use and education. As in the rest of the Arab world, this linguistic situation has been ...