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3 days ago · Arabic language, a Semitic language spoken in areas including North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the Middle East. The language of the Qur’an (the sacred book of Islam) is often considered the ideal archetype of Arabic’s many varieties, and the literary standard closely approaches that archetype.
3 days ago · Arab, one whose native language is Arabic. In modern usage, it embraces any of the Arabic-speaking peoples living in the vast region from Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast of Africa, to southwestern Iran, including the entire Maghrib of North Africa, Egypt and Sudan, the Arabian Peninsula, and Syria and Iraq.
Mar 22, 2024 · Published by. Einar H. Dyvik , Mar 22, 2024. In 2023, there were around 1.5 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.1 billion ...
Pakistan is a multilingual country with over 70 languages spoken as first languages. [3] [4] The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family. [5] [6] Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred and ...
May 15, 2020 · The Arabic community is a growing minority in the United States. In 2017, there were approximately 3.7 million Arab Americans living in the United States. 1 Arab Americans live in all 50 states with about half of them residing in California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, and New York. 2 In the state of Iowa in the Midwest, Arabs constitute ...
Egyptians speak a continuum of dialects. The predominant dialect in Egypt is Egyptian Colloquial Arabic or Masri / Masry ( مصرى Egyptian ), which is the vernacular language. [13] Literary Arabic is the official language [14] and the most widely written. The Coptic language is used primarily by Egyptian Copts and it is the liturgical ...
Iraq - Arabs, Mesopotamia, Tigris-Euphrates: Iraq’s Arab population is divided between Sunni Muslims and the more numerous Shiʿi Muslims. These groups, however, are for the most part ethnically and linguistically homogenous, and—as is common throughout the region—both value family relations strongly. Many Arabs, in fact, identify more strongly with their family or tribe (an extended ...
