Some of the most influenced languages are Persian, Turkish, Hindustani ( Hindi and Urdu), Kashmiri, Kurdish, Bosnian, Kazakh, Bengali, Malay ( Indonesian and Malaysian), Maldivian, Pashto, Punjabi, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Sicilian, Spanish, Greek, Bulgarian, Tagalog, Sindhi, Odia and Hausa and some languages in parts of Africa. The Balkan languages, including Greek and Bulgarian, have also acquired a significant number of words of Arabic origin through contact with Ottoman Turkish.Īrabic has influenced many other languages around the globe throughout its history especially languages of Muslim cultures and countries that were conquered by Muslims. The Maltese language is a Semitic language developed from a dialect of Arabic and written in the Latin alphabet. Arabic influence, mainly in vocabulary, is seen in European languages-mainly Spanish and to a lesser extent Portuguese, Catalan, and Sicilian-owing to both the proximity of Christian European and Muslim Arabized civilizations and the long-lasting Muslim culture and Arabic language presence, mainly in Southern Iberia, during the Al-Andalus era. As a result, many European languages have also borrowed many words from it. ĭuring the early Middle Ages, Arabic was a major vehicle of culture in the Mediterranean region, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy. It is also the liturgical language of the religion of Islam, since the Quran and the Hadiths were written in Classical Arabic. Arabic, in its Modern Standard Arabic form, is the official language of 26 states and 1 disputed territory, the third most after English and French This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as al-ʿarabiyyatu l-fuṣḥā ( اَلعَرَبِيَّةُ ٱلْفُصْحَىٰ "the eloquent Arabic") or simply al-fuṣḥā ( اَلْفُصْحَىٰ).Īrabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the world and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, governments and the media.
The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form, Modern Standard Arabic, also referred to as Literary Arabic, which is modernized Classical Arabic. It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living in the Arabian Peninsula bounded by eastern Egypt in the west, Mesopotamia in the east, and the Anti-Lebanon mountains and northern Syria in the north, as perceived by ancient Greek geographers. It is now the lingua franca of the Arab world. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.Īrabic ( اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah ( listen) or عَرَبِيّ, ʿarabīy ( listen) or ) is a Semitic language that first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Use of Arabic as the national language (green), as an official language (dark blue) and as a regional/minority language (light blue)
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