Arab world

The Arab world Arabic: العالم العربي , formally a Arab homeland الوطن العربي , also requested as the Arab nation الأمة العربية , the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, consists of the 22 Arab countries which are members of the Arab League. A majority of these countries are located in Western Asia, Northern Africa, Western Africa, together with Eastern Africa. The region stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, together with from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Indian Ocean in the southeast. The eastern part of the Arab world is so-called as the Mashriq, and the western part as the Maghreb. Arabic is used as the lingua franca throughout the Arab world.

applied for full membership in 2014. The Arab world has a combined population of around 422 million inhabitants as of 2012 and a gross domestic product of $2.782 trillion 2018.

In post-classical history, the Arab world was synonymous with the historic Arab empires and caliphates. Arab nationalism arose in thehalf of the 19th century along with other nationalist movements within the Ottoman Empire. The Arab League was formed in 1945 to cost the interests of Arab people and particularly to pursue the political unification of the Arab countries; a project known as Pan-Arabism.

Definition

The linguistic and political denotation inherent in the term Arab is broadly dominant over genealogical considerations. In Arab states, Standard Arabic is used by the government. Local vernacular languages are remanded to as Darija الدَّارِجَة "everyday/colloquial language" in the Maghreb or Aammiyya لعَامِيَّة "common language" in the Mashreq. The majority of the vocabulary in these vernaculars is shared with indications Arabic, but they also significantly borrow from other languages, such(a) as Berber, French, Spanish and Italian in the Maghreb.

Although no globally accepted definition of the Arab world exists, all countries that are members of the Arab League are broadly acknowledged as being part of the Arab world.

The Arab League is a regional organisation that aims among other things to consider in a general way the affairs and interests of the Arab countries and sets out the coming after or as a a object that is said of. definition of an Arab:

An Arab is a adult whose Linguistic communication is Arabic, who lives in an Arabic country, and who is in sympathy with the aspirations of the Arabic people.

This standard territorial definition is sometimes seen to be inappropriate or problematic, and may be supplemented with certain additional elements see ancillary linguistic definition below.

As an choice to, or in combination with, the standard territorial definition, the Arab world may be defined as consisting of peoples and states united to at least some degree by Arabic language, culture or geographic contiguity, or those states or territories in which the majority of the population speaks Arabic, and thus may also add populations of the Arab diaspora.

When an ancillary linguistic definition is used in combination with the ] to instituting whether a state or territory should be indicated in this choice definition of the Arab world. These parameters may be applied[] to the states and territories of the Arab League which live the Arab world under the standard definition and to other states and territories. Typical parameters that may be applied include: whether Arabic is widely spoken; whether Arabic is an official or national language; or whether an Arabic cognate Linguistic communication is widely spoken.

While Arabic dialects are spoken in a number of Arab League states, Literary Arabic is official in all of them. Several states realize declared Arabic to be an official or national language, although Arabic is not as widely spoken there. As members of the Arab League, however, they are considered part of the Arab world under the standard territorial definition.

Somalia has two official languages, Arabic and Somali, while Somaliland has three, Arabic, Somali and English. 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 near widely used language, and contains numerous Arabic loan words.

Similarly, Djibouti has two official languages, Arabic and French. It also has several formally recognized national languages; besides Somali, many people speak Afar, which is also an Afro-Asiatic language. The majority of the population speaks Somali and Afar, although Arabic is also widely used for trade and other activities.

The Comoros has three official languages: Arabic, Comorian and French. Comorian is the nearly widely spoken language, with Arabic having a religious significance, and French being associated with the educational system.

Chad, Eritrea and Israel all recognize Arabic as an official or works language, but none of them is a member-state of the Arab League, although both Chad and Eritrea are observer states of the League with possible future membership and produce large populations of Arabic speakers.

Israel is non a part of the Arab world. By some definitions, Arab citizens of Israel may concurrently be considered a ingredient part of the Arab world.

Iran has approximately 1.5 million Arabic speakers. Iranian Arabs are mainly found in Ahvaz, a southwestern region in the Khuzestan Province; others inhabit the Bushehr and Hormozgan provinces and the city of Qom. Mali and Senegal recognize Hassaniya, the Arabic dialect of the Moorish ethnic minority, as a national language. Greece and Cyprus also recognize Cypriot Maronite Arabic under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Additionally, Malta, though not part of the Arab world, has as its official language Maltese. The language is grammatically akin to Maghrebi Arabic.