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  2. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    as the sole official script. as a co-official script. The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, of which most have contextual letterforms. The Arabic alphabet is considered an abjad ...

  3. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    official at a provincial level (China, India, Tanzania) or a recognized second script of the official language (Malaysia, Tajikistan) The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic, ALV and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script), [ 2 ...

  4. Help:IPA/Arabic - Wikipedia

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    IPA/Arabic. < Help:IPA. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah [al ʕaraˈbijːa] ⓘ or عَرَبِيّ, ʿarabīy [ˈʕarabiː] ⓘ or [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. [14] The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of ...

  7. Arabic chat alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic chat alphabet, Arabizi, [1] Arabeezi, Arabish, Franco-Arabic or simply Franco[2] (from franco-arabe) refer to the romanized alphabets for informal Arabic dialects in which Arabic script is transcribed or encoded into a combination of Latin script and Arabic numerals. [3][4] These informal chat alphabets were originally used primarily ...

  8. Gulf Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Gulf Arabic (خليجي Ḵalījī local pronunciation: [χɑˈliːdʒiː] or اللهجة الخليجية il-lahja il-Ḵalījīya, local pronunciation: [(ɪ)lˈlæhdʒæ lχɑˈliːdʒiːjæ]) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia [2] around the coasts of the Persian Gulf in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, southern Iraq, [3] eastern Saudi Arabia ...

  9. Arabic numerals - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of Indian numerals into Arabic numerals and their adoption in Europe. Positional decimal notation including a zero symbol was developed in India, using symbols visually distinct from those that would eventually enter into international use.