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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 February 2025, it has 1,253,950 articles, 2,690,898 registered users and 54,396 files and it is the 17th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 7th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
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]
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Romanization is often termed "transliteration", but this is not technically correct. [citation needed] Transliteration is the direct representation of foreign letters using Latin symbols, while most systems for romanizing Arabic are actually transcription systems, which represent the sound of the language, since short vowels and geminate consonants, for example, does not usually appear in ...
Arabic is a language cluster comprising 30 or so modern varieties. [1] 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).
The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is a unicameral script written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [b] of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the modern Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case.
Holes, Clive (2004) Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions, and Varieties Georgetown University Press. ISBN 1-58901-022-1; Versteegh, Dialects of Arabic; Kees Versteegh, The Arabic Language (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997) Columbia Arabic Dialect Modeling (CADIM) Group; Israeli Hebrew and Modern Arabic – a Few Differences and Many ...
Classical Arabic is the historical form of the Arabic language that emerged from the pre-Islamic era and was later immortalized as the language of the Quran.It is renowned for its intricate grammar, rich vocabulary, and expressive stylistic features that have influenced literary traditions across the Arab world.