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Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary standard across the Middle East, North Africa and Horn of Africa, and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Most printed material in the Arab League —including most books, newspapers, magazines, official documents, and reading primers for small children—is written in MSA.
- Pluricentric Language
A pluricentric language or polycentric language is a...
- Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) largely follows the grammatical...
- Varieties of Arabic
Arabic speakers typically do not make an explicit...
- Arabic phonology
Modern Standard Arabic has 28 consonant phonemes and 6 vowel...
- Pluricentric Language
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.
- 292 million (2017)
- Modern Standard Arabic
- /al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabiː/
Arabic grammar ( Arabic: النَّحْوُ العَرَبِيُّ) is the grammar of the Arabic language. Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities with the grammar of other Semitic languages. Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic have largely the same grammar; colloquial spoken varieties of Arabic can vary in different ways.
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA) is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and in some usages also the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard.
