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*language of ‘the arabs’*
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(arabic: العَرَبِيَّة, al-ʻarabiyyah [ʔalʕaraˈbijːah)
(or –> عَرَبِيّ ʻarabiyy [ʕaraˈbijː])
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[‘arabic’ is the ‘classical arabic’ language of ‘the 500s’ and its ‘modern descendants (excluding ‘maltese’)]
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(‘arabic’ is spoken in a wide arc stretching across ‘western asia’, ‘north africa’, and the ‘horn of africa’)
(‘arabic’ belongs to the ‘semitic branch’ of the ‘afro-asiatic language family’)
(the ‘literary language’ (called ‘modern standard arabic’ or ‘literary arabic’, is the only ‘official’ form of ‘arabic’)
(it is used in most ‘written documents’ as well as in ‘formal spoken occasions’, such as ‘lectures’ and ‘news broadcasts’)
(some of the ‘spoken varieties’ are ‘mutually unintelligible’ (both ‘written’ and ‘orally’) and the varieties as a whole constitute a ‘sociolinguistic language’)
(this means that on purely linguistic grounds they would likely be considered to constitute more than 1 ‘language’, but are commonly grouped together as a ‘single language’ for ‘political’ or ‘religious’ reasons)
(if ‘arabic’ is considered a ‘single language’, it is perhaps spoken by as many as ‘422 million speakers’ (‘native’ and ‘non-native’) in the ‘arab world’, making it 1 of the 6 most-spoken languages in the world)
(if considered ‘separate languages’, the most-spoken variety would most likely be ‘egyptian arabic’ (with 89 million native speakers—still greater than any other ‘afroasiatic language’))
(‘arabic’ also is a ‘liturgical language’ of 1.6 billion ‘muslims’)
(it is 1 of 6 ‘official languages’ of the ‘united nations’)
(the arabic ‘modern written language’ (called ‘modern standard arabic’) is derived from the language of the ‘quran’ (known as ‘classical arabic’ or ‘quranic rrabic’))
(it is widely taught in ‘schools’ and ‘universities’, and is used to varying degrees in ‘workplaces’, ‘government’, and ‘the media’)
(the 2 ‘formal varieties’ are grouped together as ‘literary arabic’, which is the ‘official language’ of ’26 states’ and the ‘liturgical language’ of ‘islam’)
(‘modern standard arabic’ largely follows the ‘grammatical standards’ of ‘quranic arabic’ and uses much of the same ‘vocabulary’)
(however, it has discarded some ‘grammatical constructions’ and ‘vocabulary’ that no longer have any ‘counterpart’ in the ‘spoken varieties’, and has adopted certain new ‘constructions’ and ‘vocabulary’ from the ‘spoken varieties’)
(much of the ‘new vocabulary’ is used to denote ‘concepts’ that have arisen in the ‘post-quranic era’, especially in ‘modern times’)
(“how ‘modern’ are we talking?)
(‘arabic’ is written 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 forms’)
(‘arabic’ has influenced many ‘languages’ around the ‘globe’ throughout its ‘history’)
(some of the most influenced languages are ‘persian’, ‘turkish’, ‘urdu’, ‘kurdish’, ‘bosnian’, ‘kazakh’, ‘bengali’, ‘hindi’, ‘malay’, ‘maldivian’, ‘indonesian’, ‘pashto’, ‘punjabi’, ‘tagalog’, ‘sindhi’, and ‘hausa’ (as well as some ‘languages’ in parts of ‘africa’))
(during the ‘middle ages’, ‘literary arabic’ was a major vehicle of ‘culture’ in ‘europe’, especially in ‘science’, ‘mathematics’, and ‘philosophy’)
(as a result, many ‘european languages’ have also borrowed many words from it)
(many words of ‘arabic origin’ are also found in ‘ancient languages’ like ‘latin’ and ‘greek’)
(‘arabic’ influence (mainly in ‘vocabulary’) is seen in ‘european languages’ (mainly ‘spanish’ and ‘portuguese’) owing to both the proximity of ‘christian european’ and ‘muslim arab’ civilizations and ‘800 years’ of ‘arabic culture’ and ‘language’ in the ‘iberian peninsula’, referred to in ‘arabic’ as ‘al-andalus’)
(‘balkan languages’, including ‘greek’, have also acquired a significant number of ‘arabic’ vocabulary through contact with ‘ottoman turkish’)
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(‘arabic’ has also borrowed words from many ‘languages’, including…)
‘hebrew’ / ‘aramaic’ / ‘greek’ / ‘persian’ / ‘syriac’
(in early centuries)
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‘kurdish’
(in ‘medieval times’)
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(‘contemporary european languages’)
(mostly ‘english’ + ‘french’)
(in ‘modern times’)
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