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The first printed dictionary of the Arabic language in Arabic characters. Jacobus Golius, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, Leiden 1653. The dominant Arabic dictionary in Europe for almost two centuries. Georg Freytag, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzubadiique et aliorum libris confectum I–IV, Halle 1830–1837
The French-language Petit Larousse is an example of an illustrated dictionary. Arabic dictionaries were compiled between the 8th and 14th centuries, organizing words in rhyme order (by the last syllable), by alphabetical order of the radicals , or according to the alphabetical order of the first letter (the system used in modern European ...
The term Egyptian Arabic is usually used synonymously with " Cairene Arabic ", which is technically a dialect of Egyptian Arabic. The country's native name, مصر Maṣr, is often used locally to refer to Cairo itself. As is the case with Parisian French, Cairene Arabic is by far the most prevalent dialect in the country.
Chadian Arabic ( Arabic: لهجة تشادية ), also known as Shuwa Arabic, [a] Western Sudanic Arabic, or West Sudanic Arabic (WSA), [2] is a variety of Arabic and the first language of 1.6 million people, [3] both town dwellers and nomadic cattle herders. Most of its speakers live in central and southern Chad.
Most Berber languages have a high percentage of borrowing and influence from the Arabic language, as well as from other languages. For example, Arabic loanwords represent 35% to 46% of the total vocabulary of the Kabyle language, and represent 51.7% of the total vocabulary of Tarifit. Almost all Berber languages took from Arabic the pharyngeal ...
A language planning project for a single Arabic Sign Language is being conducted by the Council of Arab Ministers of Social Affairs (CAMSA), with much of the vocabulary voted on by regional Deaf associations. However, so far only a dictionary has been compiled; grammar has not been addressed, so the result cannot be considered a language.
Monolingual dictionaries should be listed in a subcategory of Category:Dictionaries by language. For example, a dictionary with French headwords accompanied by definitions in French should be categorized as Category:French dictionaries. Two-language dictionaries which translate in only one direction should be listed in a subcategory of Category ...
