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9 hours ago · Letters The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Forms using the Arabic script to write other languages added and removed letters: for example Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Urdu, Sindhi, Azerbaijani, Malay, Acehnese, Banjarese, Javanese, Pashto, Punjabi, Uyghur, Arwi and Arabi Malayalam all have additional letters in their alphabets. Unlike Greek -derived alphabets, Arabic has no ...
- History of The Arabic Alphabet
The first known recorded text in the Arabic alphabet is...
- Nabataean
Example in Nabataean alphabet. The Nabataean script is an...
- History of The Arabic Alphabet
5 days ago · Arabic language, Semitic language spoken in a large area including North Africa, most of the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the Middle East. ( See also Afro-Asiatic languages .) Scholars have struggled to define Arabic as a language .
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3 days ago · Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula.
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- Arab world
4 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.
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3 days ago · Moroccan Arabic ( Arabic: العربية المغربية الدارجة, romanized : al-ʻArabiyyah al-Maghribiyyah ad-Dārija [3] lit. 'Moroccan vernacular Arabic' ), also known as Darija ( الدارجة or الداريجة [3] ), is the dialectal, vernacular form or forms of Arabic spoken in Morocco.
3 days ago · Modern distribution of the Semitic languages. Approximate historical distribution of Semitic languages. The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages.
- Afro-AsiaticSemitic
2 days ago · Lebanon, country consisting of a narrow strip of territory on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It was home to ancient Phoenician settlements at sites that continued to be important centers of trade into the modern era. Lebanon became independent in 1943 with Beirut as its capital.
