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  2. 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 1,234,226 articles, 2,584,981 registered users and 54,259 files and it is the 17th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 7th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.

  3. Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Flag of the Arab League, used in some cases for the Arabic language. The issue of whether Arabic is one language or many languages is politically charged, in the same way it is for the varieties of Chinese, Hindi and Urdu, Serbian and Croatian, Scots and English, etc. In contrast to speakers of Hindi and Urdu who claim they cannot understand ...

  4. List of countries and territories where Arabic is an official ...

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    Arabic was an official language of Mandatory Palestine and was retained as an official language when the State of Israel was founded in 1948. In 2018, the Knesset upgraded the status of Hebrew from official to State language of Israel, and gave Arabic a special status in the State by adopting the relevant Basic Law.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Classical Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (Arabic: العربية الفصحى التراثية, romanized: al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā at-Turāthīyah, lit. 'the most eloquent classic Arabic') is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notably in Umayyad and Abbasid literary texts such as poetry, elevated prose and oratory, and is also ...

  9. Arabic grammar - Wikipedia

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    Arabic grammar ( Arabic: النَّحْوُ العَرَبِيُّ) is the grammar of the Arabic language. Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities with the grammar of other Semitic languages. Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic have largely the same grammar; colloquial spoken varieties of Arabic can vary in ...