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Arabic  

Definition

  • Arabic is a name for what are traditionally considered the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century. This includes both the literary language and varieties of Arabic spoken in a wide arc of territory, stretching across the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa. Arabic belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The literary language is called Modern Standard Arabic or Literary Arabic, which is a pluricentric, fusional language. It is currently the only official form of Arabic, used in most written documents as well as in formal spoken occasions, such as lectures and news broadcasts.Arabic is written using the Arabic script.

Identifier

  • ARA

Change note

  • Documentation for ISO 639 identifier ‘ARA’: The individual languages within this macrolanguage are: Algerian Arabic arq.

Notation

  • AR
  • ar
  • ara
  • ARABE

In other languages

  • العربية

    Arabic

  • al-‘arabiyyah
  • арабски

    Bulgarian

  • arapski

    Croatian

  • arabština

    Czech

  • arabisk

    Danish

  • Arabisch

    Dutch

  • araabia keel

    Estonian

  • arabia

    Finnish

  • arabe

    French

  • Arabisch

    German

  • αραβικά

    Greek

  • arab

    Hungarian

  • arabíska

    Icelandic

  • Araibis

    Irish

  • arabo

    Italian

  • arābu valoda

    Latvian

  • arabų kalba

    Lithuanian

  • арапски

    Macedonian

  • Għarbi

    Maltese

  • arabisk

    Norwegian

  • arabski

    Polish

  • árabe

    Portuguese

  • arabă

    Romanian

  • арабский

    Russian

  • арапски

    Serbian

  • arapski

    Serbo-Croatian

  • arabčina

    Slovak

  • arabščina

    Slovenian

  • árabe

    Spanish

  • arabiska

    Swedish

  • arapça

    Turkish

  • арабська мова

    Ukrainian

  • arabšćina

    Upper Sorbian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ARA

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