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

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    Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world as well as of Arabs who live in the diaspora, particularly in Latin America (especially Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Colombia) or Western Europe (like France, Spain, Germany or Italy). Cypriot Arabic is a recognized minority language in the EU member state ...

  3. Languages of Asia - Wikipedia

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    Asia is home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the continent include Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Kra–Dai and Koreanic. Many languages of Asia, such as Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Tamil or ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. Semitic languages - Wikipedia

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    The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, [a] the Horn of Africa, [b][c] Malta, [d] and in large immigrant and expatriate ...

  7. Central Asian Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Central Asian Arabic or Jugari Arabic (Arabic: العربية الآسيوية الوسطى) refers to a set of four closely-related varieties of Arabic currently facing extinction and spoken predominantly by Arab communities living in portions of Central Asia. These varieties are Bactrian (or Bakhtiari) Arabic, Bukhara (or Buxara) Arabic, [2 ...

  8. Arab world - Wikipedia

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    Both Arabic and Somali belong to the larger Afro-Asiatic language family. Although Arabic is widely spoken by many people in the north and urban areas in the south, Somali is the most widely used language, and contains many Arabic loan words. [36] Similarly, Djibouti has two official languages, Arabic and French.

  9. 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 ...