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The greatest variations between kinds of Arabic are those between regional language groups. Arabic dialectologists formerly distinguished between just two groups: the Mashriqi (eastern) dialects, east of Libya which includes the dialects of Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, Levant, Egypt, Sudan, and the Maghrebi (western) dialects which includes ...
An Arabic language Q&A platform called Seen Jeem was available through the Yahoo! subsidiary Maktoob until 2010, and the Chinese language version Yahoo! Knowledge was available until 2021. [16] The platform is known as Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Yahoo!知恵袋) in Japan. [17] On December 8, 2016, Yahoo! released an app for the platform called Yahoo!
Arabic is the third most widespread official language after English and French, [16] one of six official languages of the United Nations, [17] and the liturgical language of Islam. [18] Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the world and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, governments and the media. [ 18 ]
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic, other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [1]
Most Berber languages have a high percentage of borrowing and influence from the Arabic language, as well as from other languages. [3] For example, Arabic loanwords represent 35% [4] to 46% [5] of the total vocabulary of the Kabyle language, and represent 51.7% of the total vocabulary of Tarifit. [6] Almost all Berber languages took from Arabic ...
Yahoo! Maktoob (Arabic: مكتوب) was an online services company founded in Amman . Maktoob.com was known as the first Arabic–English email service provider. [1] In 2009, Yahoo! acquired Maktoob.com, making it Yahoo!'s official arm in the MENA region. [2] As of 31 January 2023, Yahoo!
Sabaic is the best attested language in South Arabian inscriptions, named after the Kingdom of Saba, and is documented over a millennium. [4] In the linguistic history of this region, there are three main phases of the evolution of the language: Late Sabaic (10th–2nd centuries BC), Middle Sabaic (2nd century BC–mid-4th century AD), and Late Sabaic (mid-4th century AD–eve of Islam). [16]
The Arabic of today is derived principally from the old dialects of Central and North Arabia which were divided by the classical Arab grammarians into three groups: Hejaz, Najd, and the language of the tribes in adjoining areas. Though the modern Hejazi dialects has developed markedly since the development of Classical Arabic, and Modern ...