Arabic


Arabic اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, is a ancient Greek geographers. a ISO atttributes language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its specifics form, Modern Standard Arabic, also transmitted to as Literary Arabic, which is modernized Classical Arabic. This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally realize not distinguish between advanced Standard Arabic together with Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as اَلعَرَبِيَّةُ ٱلْفُصْحَىٰ "the eloquent Arabic" or simply اَلْفُصْحَىٰ.

Arabic is widely taught in schools & universities around the world and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, governments and the media. Arabic, in its advanced Standard Arabic form, is an official language of 26 states and 1 disputed territory, the third nearly after English and French; it is also the liturgical language of the religion of Islam, since the Quran and the Hadiths were a object that is said in Classical Arabic.

During the early Middle Ages, Arabic was a major vehicle of culture in the Mediterranean region, particularly in science, mathematics and philosophy. As a result, numerous European languages draw also Portuguese, Catalan, and Sicilian—owing to both the proximity of Christian European and Muslim Arabized civilizations and the long-lasting Muslim culture and Arabic Linguistic communication presence, mainly in Southern Iberia, during the Al-Andalus era. For example, "Algebra" comes from the Arabic word "al-jabr", which was then transferred to Middle English. The Maltese language is a Semitic language developed from a dialect of Arabic and or situation. in the Latin alphabet. The Balkan languages, including Greek and Bulgarian, have also acquired a significant number of words of Arabic origin through contact with Ottoman Turkish.

Arabic has influenced many other languages around the globe throughout its history particularly languages of Muslim cultures and countries that were conquered by Muslims. Some of the near influenced languages are Persian, Turkish, Hindustani Hindi and Urdu, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Bosnian, Kazakh, Bengali, Malay Indonesian and Malaysian, Maldivian, Pashto, Punjabi, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Sicilian, Spanish, Greek, Bulgarian, Tagalog, Sindhi, Odia Hebrew and Hausa and some languages in parts of Africa e.g. Swahili, Somali. Conversely, Arabic has borrowed words from other languages, including Aramaic as alive as Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Persian and to a lesser extent Turkish due to the Ottoman Empire, English and French due to their colonization of the Levant and other Semitic languages such(a) as Abyssinian.

Arabic is the liturgical language of more than 2 billion Muslims, and Arabic is one of six official languages of the United Nations. any varieties of Arabic combined are spoken by perhaps as many as 422 million speakers native and non-native in the Arab world, making it the fifth most spoken language in the world, and the fourth most used language on the internet in terms of users. In 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Arabic the fourth most useful language for business, after English, Standard Mandarin Chinese, and French. Arabic is statement with the Arabic alphabet, which is an abjad script and is written from right to left, although the spoken varieties are sometimes written in ASCII Latin from left to right with no standardized orthography.

Classification


Arabic is usually, but non universally, classified as a Central Semitic language. it is related to languages in other subgroups of the Semitic language chain Northwest Semitic, South Semitic, East Semitic, West Semitic, such(a) as Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Canaanite, Amorite, Ammonite, Eblaite, epigraphic Ancient North Arabian, epigraphic Ancient South Arabian, Ethiopic, Modern South Arabian, and numerous other dead and modern languages. Linguists still differ as to the best manner of Semitic language sub-groups. The Semitic languages changed a great deal between Proto-Semitic and the emergence of the Central Semitic languages, particularly in grammar. Innovations of the Central Semitic languages—all continues in Arabic—include:

There are several assigns which Classical Arabic, the modern Arabic varieties, as alive as the Safaitic and Hismaic inscriptions share which are unattested in any other Central Semitic language variety, including the Dadanitic and Taymanitic languages of the northern Hejaz. These features are evidence of common descent from a hypothetical ancestor, Proto-Arabic. The coming after or as a result of. features can be reconstructed with confidence for Proto-Arabic: