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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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

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Manama officialLanguage Arabic
Lydda (modern Lod, Israel) languageHistoricallySpoken Arabic
subject surface form: Lydda
Minya hasLanguage Arabic
Minya officialLanguage Arabic
Oran officialLanguage Arabic
Chad officialLanguage Arabic
Michael isUsedInLanguage Arabic
Kiunguja lexifierInfluence Arabic
Aden officialLanguage Arabic
Ibero-Romance languages influencedBy Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic language
Malay majorLoanwordSource Arabic
Egyptian Arabic subfamily Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic languages
FIBA officialLanguage Arabic
Al-Khalil majorLanguage Arabic
Isha languageOfName Arabic
SEATO hasLanguage Arabic
Bambara influencedBy Arabic
Juan Cole languageSpoken Arabic
Shilha hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Constantine language Arabic
Amr languageOfOrigin Arabic
Hamas languageOfName Arabic
Uyghur language (historically) influencedBy Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic language
Sara usedInLanguage Arabic
Brida hasTranslation Arabic
Najdi Arabic partOf Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic language