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Arabic ( اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah [al ʕaraˈbijːa] ⓘ or عَرَبِيّ, ʿarabīy [ˈʕarabiː] ⓘ or [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. [14] The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of ...
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- Modern Standard Arabic
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Many countries speak Arabic as an official language, but not all of them speak it the same way. The language has many dialects , or varieties, such as Modern Standard Arabic , Egyptian Arabic , Gulf Arabic , Maghrebi Arabic , Levantine Arabic and many others.
Modern Standard Arabic has six vowel phonemes forming three pairs of corresponding short and long vowels ( /a, aː, i, iː, u, uː/ ). Many spoken varieties also include /oː/ and /eː/. Modern Standard Arabic has two diphthongs (formed by a combination of short /a/ with the semivowels /j/ and /w/ ).