Overview of the Arabic Language
Arabic Language Overview
Geographical Spread
The Arabic language is spoken in the Arab world, which encompasses countries in the Middle East and North Africa. It is an official language in the following states and territories:
- Algeria 🇩🇿
- Bahrain 🇧ðŸ‡
- Chad 🇹🇩
- Comoros 🇰🇲
- Djibouti 🇩🇯
- Egypt 🇪🇬
- Eritrea 🇪🇷
- Iraq 🇮🇶
- Jordan 🇯🇴
- Kuwait 🇰🇼
- Lebanon 🇱🇧
- Libya 🇱🇾
- Mauritania 🇲🇷
- Morocco 🇲🇦
- Oman 🇴🇲
- Palestine 🇵🇸
- Qatar 🇶🇦
- Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
- Somalia 🇸🇴
- Sudan 🇸🇩
- Syria 🇸🇾
- Tunisia 🇹🇳
- United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪
- Yemen 🇾🇪
- Zanzibar (Tanzania) 🇹🇿
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (partially recognized state)
- Somaliland (unrecognized state)
Number of Speakers
Arabic has approximately 380 million native speakers and about 330 million L2 users of Modern Standard Arabic.
Language Family
Arabic is a member of the Afro-Asiatic language family, within the Semitic branch.
Similar Languages
Arabic shares similarities with other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Aramaic.
Writing System
The primary writing system for Arabic is the Arabic alphabet. Other scripts used for Arabic include the Latin script, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet, and Greek alphabet.
References
Information sourced from Wikipedia – Arabic