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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.
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 ...
The Egypt Portal. Egypt ( Arabic: مصر Miṣr [mesˁr], Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mɑsˤr] ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Arabs. The Arabs ( Arabic: عَرَب, DIN 31635: ʿarab, Arabic pronunciation: [b] [ˈʕɑ.rɑb] ⓘ ), also known as the Arab people ( الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ ), are an ethnic group [c] mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa. A significant Arab diaspora is present in various parts of the world.
The Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo ( Arabic: مجمع اللغة العربية بالقاهرة, romanized : Majmaʻ al-Lughah al-ʻArabīyah) is a language academy for Arabic created in Cairo, Egypt in 1932 by Fuad I of Egypt. [1] [2] It publishes Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir ( The Great Dictionary) and Al-Mu'jam al-Wasīt [ ar] ( The ...
The Arab world straddles two continents, Africa and Asia. It is mainly oriented along an east–west axis. [citation needed] The West Asian Arab region comprises the Arabian Peninsula, most of the Levant (excluding Cyprus and Israel), most of Mesopotamia (excluding parts of Turkey and Iran) and the Persian Gulf region.
Current situation. Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary standard across the Middle East, North Africa and Horn of Africa, and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Most printed material in the Arab League —including most books, newspapers, magazines, official documents, and reading primers for small children—is ...
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.