Arabic
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Arabic is a Semitic language widely spoken across the Arab world and used as a liturgical language in Islam.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arabic canonical | 1,203 |
| Arabic language | 81 |
| Arab | 2 |
| Egyptian Arabic | 2 |
| Arabic (lexicon) | 1 |
| Arabic Fa | 1 |
| Arabic Language | 1 |
| Arabic language continuum | 1 |
| Arabic languages | 1 |
| Arabic macrolanguage | 1 |
| Classical Arabic | 1 |
| Israel (as Modern Standard Arabic) | 1 |
| Modern Standard Arabic | 1 |
| Najdi Arabic | 1 |
| اللغة العربية | 1 |
Statements (90)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Semitic language
ⓘ
liturgical language ⓘ macrolanguage ⓘ |
| directionOfWriting | right-to-left ⓘ |
| hasCalligraphicStyle |
Diwani script
ⓘ
Kufic script ⓘ Naskh script ⓘ Ruqʿah script ⓘ Thuluth script ⓘ |
| hasCalligraphicTradition | Arabic calligraphy ⓘ |
| hasDerivedScript | Perso-Arabic script ⓘ |
| hasDialectGroup |
Maghrebi Arabic
ⓘ
surface form:
Andalusian Arabic (historical)
Arabic self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Egyptian Arabic
Gulf Arabic ⓘ Hijazi Arabic ⓘ Levantine Arabic ⓘ Maghrebi Arabic ⓘ Mesopotamian Arabic ⓘ Arabic self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Najdi Arabic
Sudanese Arabic ⓘ Yemeni Arabic ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
case system
ⓘ
grammatical gender ⓘ verb conjugation by person, number, gender ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
root-and-pattern morphology
ⓘ
triconsonantal roots ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
emphatic consonants
ⓘ
pharyngeal consonants ⓘ |
| hasRegister |
Classical Arabic
ⓘ
Modern Standard Arabic ⓘ colloquial dialects ⓘ |
| historicalForm | Old Arabic ⓘ |
| influencedLanguage |
Hausa
ⓘ
Indonesian ⓘ Malay ⓘ Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
Spanish ⓘ Swahili language ⓘ
surface form:
Swahili
Turkish ⓘ Urdu language ⓘ
surface form:
Urdu
|
| isLanguageOf |
Arab culture
ⓘ
Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) ⓘ Islamic philosophy ⓘ Islamic theology (kalam) ⓘ classical Arabic literature ⓘ pre-Islamic Arabic poetry ⓘ |
| ISO639-1Code | ar ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | ara ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | ara ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Afroasiatic languages ⓘ |
| liturgicalUseIn | Islam ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOf |
Algeria
ⓘ
Arab League ⓘ Bahrain ⓘ Chad ⓘ Comoros ⓘ Djibouti ⓘ Egypt ⓘ Eritrea ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Arabic self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Israel (as Modern Standard Arabic)
Jordan ⓘ Kuwait ⓘ Lebanon ⓘ Libya ⓘ Mauritania ⓘ Morocco ⓘ Oman ⓘ State of Palestine ⓘ
surface form:
Palestine
Qatar ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ Somalia ⓘ State of Palestine ⓘ Sudan ⓘ Syria ⓘ Tunisia ⓘ United Arab Emirates ⓘ Yemen ⓘ |
| oneOfSixOfficialLanguagesOf | United Nations ⓘ |
| religiousUseIn |
Islamic prayer
ⓘ
Islamic scholarship ⓘ |
| sacredTextLanguageOf | Quran ⓘ |
| standardForm |
Arabic
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Arabic
Arabic self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Standard Arabic
|
| subfamily | Central Semitic languages ⓘ |
| usedAsLinguaFrancaIn |
Middle East
ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ |
| usedIn | Arab world ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Arabic script ⓘ |
| writingSystemVariant | Arabic abjad ⓘ |
Referenced by (1,299)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Egyptian Arabic
this entity surface form:
Modern Standard Arabic
this entity surface form:
Classical Arabic
this entity surface form:
Israel (as Modern Standard Arabic)
this entity surface form:
Egyptian Arabic
this entity surface form:
Najdi Arabic
this entity surface form:
Arabic language
subject surface form:
Shahada
this entity surface form:
Arabic language
subject surface form:
Urdu
subject surface form:
Urdu
this entity surface form:
Arabic language
this entity surface form:
Arabic language
this entity surface form:
Arabic language
this entity surface form:
Arabic language
this entity surface form:
Arabic language
this entity surface form:
Arabic language
this entity surface form:
Arabic language continuum