Arabic

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Arabic is a Semitic language widely spoken across the Arab world and used as a liturgical language in Islam.

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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

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Bisha officialLanguage Arabic
EGIS languageOfOperation Arabic
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Sigrid Kaag languageSpoken Arabic
Al-Kharj officialLanguage Arabic
Bashkir hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Karakalpak hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic language
Khafji officialLanguage Arabic
Ha'il languageSpoken Arabic
Ha'il officialLanguage Arabic
LuLu languageOfUse Arabic
Larache languageUsed Arabic
East African languages areInfluencedBy Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic language
Al-Ghat hasLanguage Arabic
Rafha hasLanguage Arabic
Rafha officialLanguage Arabic
Turaif officialLanguage Arabic
Oran dialect languageFamily Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic language
Sallah languageSpoken Arabic
Malika hasOrigin Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic language
Hassaniya Arabic subgroup Arabic
Mina near Mecca language Arabic