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Arabic is a Central Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world, with the ISO recognizing 32 distinct varieties including Modern Standard Arabic, which is based on Classical Arabic. While Western linguists distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, Arabic speakers themselves typically refer to both simply as "the eloquent Arabic," viewing them as a unified tradition rather than separate forms.
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- Najdi Arabic
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- auz
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- Omani Arabic
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- 12-AAC
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- Arabic
- Language.nativename
- ()
- Language.states
- Arab world and surrounding regions
- Language.ethnicity
- Arabs, and other ethnic groups of the Arab world
- Language.speakers
- million native speakers of all varieties
- Language.date
- 2020–2024
- Language.speakers2
- million L2 users of all varieties (2020–2024)
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- Afro-Asiatic
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- natural language
- Subclass of
- Semitic
- Has part
- Saudi Arabic
- Country
- Indonesia
- Image
- Learning Arabic calligraphy.jpg
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- language regulatory body
- Arab Academy of Damascus
- writing system
- Arabic Braille
- linguistic typology
- pro-drop language
- short name
- арабски
- Wikimedia language code
- ar
- category for films in this language
- Category:Arabic-language films
- topic's main category
- Category:Arabic language
- Commons category
- Arabic language
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- native label
- اللُّغَة العَرَبِيّة
- has grammatical gender
- feminine
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wy/ar
- P10369
- Bulgaria
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 422000000
- P8168
- Nick Punto
- P11012
- CH3
- entry in abbreviations table
- 阿
- Stack Exchange tag
- linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/arabic
- has grammatical case
- Iḍāfah
- has tense
- fi'il muḍāri'
- topic has template
- Template:-ar-
- P13311
- April
- category for music in this language
- Category:Arabic-language music
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C153339
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