Arabic

E1330

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

All labels observed (15)

How this entity was disambiguated

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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1,299)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Acre languageSpoken Arabic
Juba Arabic languageFamily Arabic
Juba Arabic basedOn Arabic
Khaldoon languageOfOrigin Arabic
Latakia officialLanguage Arabic
Nigerian Arabic subfamily Arabic
Malvani hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Shina influencedBy Arabic
Nabatieh, Lebanon languageUsed Arabic
subject surface form: Nabatieh
Idris languageContext Arabic
Murcian Spanish influencedBy Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic language
Amir hasEtymologicalOrigin Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic language
Crater hasLanguageUsed Arabic
Modern South Arabian languages distinctFrom Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic language
tanka languageOfLegends Arabic
Jowhar languageSpoken Arabic
Laayoune officialLanguage Arabic
Fashn hasOfficialLanguage Arabic
central Egypt officialLanguage Arabic
subject surface form: Central Egypt
Mary languageOfUse Arabic
Tihami Arabic subclassOf Arabic
Tihami Arabic languageFamily Arabic
this entity surface form: Arabic language
Tihami Arabic isDialectOf Arabic
Yafiʿi Arabic subclassOf Arabic
Razihi Arabic subclassOf Arabic
Amarah officialLanguage Arabic
Faifi Arabic subclassOf Arabic
Deir ez-Zor languageUsed Arabic