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Egyptian Arabic
Arabic dialect spoken in Egypt
Modern Standard Arabic
the standardized and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in most formal speech
Judeo-Arabic
Gulf Arabic
variety of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia around the coasts of the Persian Gulf
Classical Arabic
form of the Arabic language used in Umayyad and Abbasid literary texts
Arabization
thumb|262x262px|Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan|Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705) established Arabic as the sole official language of the [[Umayyad Caliphate in 686 CE.]]
varieties of Arabic
family of language varieties
Shuwa
variety of Sudanic Arabic spoken in Chad, western Sudan, eastern Nigeria, and northern Cameroon
Maghrebi Arabic
family of Arabic dialects spoken in the Maghreb
Sudanese Arabic
language
Central Asian Arabic
variety of Arabic spoken in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
Arabian
language family
Bedawi Arabic
variety of Arabic spoken by Bedouins mostly in eastern Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula and along the north of the Red Sea, and also in the South of Jordan, and the north-west corner of Saudi Arabia
Peninsular Arabic
variety of the Arabic language spoken around the Arabian Peninsula
Old Arabic
stage of the Arabic language before the codification of classical Arabic
Arabic language in Israel
Dialect, presence and role of Arabic in Israel
Safaitic
Safaitic ( Al-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a variety of the South Semitic scripts that was used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan in the Ḥarrah region, to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic and Ancient North Arabian. The Safaitic script is a member of the Ancient North Arabian (ANA) sub-grouping of the South Semitic script family, the genetic unity of which has yet to be demonstrated.
Shirvani Arabic
dialect of Arabic once spoken in northern Azerbaijan and Dagestan
Khorasan Arabic
Dialect of Arabs of Khorasan
Ancient North Arabian
extinct alphabet
Nabataean Arabic
language
Proto-Arabic
hypothetical ancestor language of Arabic varieties
Dadanitic
thumb|Dadan Dadanitic (once known as Lihyanite) is the script and possibly the language of the oasis of Dadān (modern Al-'Ula) and the kingdom of Liḥyān in northwestern Arabia, spoken probably some time during the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Hismaic
Hismaic () is a variety of the Ancient North Arabian script and the language most commonly expressed in it. The Hismaic script may have been used to write Safaitic dialects of Old Arabic, but the language of most inscriptions differs from Safaitic in a few important respects, meriting its classification as a separate dialect or language. Hismaic inscriptions are attested in the of Northwest Arabia, dating to the centuries around and immediately following the start of the Common Era. One striking feature of the script is that it lacks a definite article.
Hasaitic dialect
Hasaitic is an Ancient North Arabian dialect attested in inscriptions in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia at Thaj, Hinna, Qatif, Ras Tanura, Abqaiq in the al-Hasa region, Ayn Jawan, Mileiha and at Uruk. It is written in the Monumental South Arabian script and dates from the 5th to 2nd centuries BC.