Concept information
Preferred term
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
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العربية
Arabic
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al-‘arabiyyah
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арабски
Bulgarian
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arapski
Croatian
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arabština
Czech
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arabisk
Danish
-
Arabisch
Dutch
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araabia keel
Estonian
-
arabia
Finnish
-
arabe
French
-
Arabisch
German
-
αραβικά
Greek
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arab
Hungarian
-
arabíska
Icelandic
-
Araibis
Irish
-
arabo
Italian
-
arābu valoda
Latvian
-
arabų kalba
Lithuanian
-
арапски
Macedonian
-
Għarbi
Maltese
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arabisk
Norwegian
-
arabski
Polish
-
árabe
Portuguese
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arabă
Romanian
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арабский
Russian
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арапски
Serbian
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arapski
Serbo-Croatian
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arabčina
Slovak
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arabščina
Slovenian
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árabe
Spanish
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arabiska
Swedish
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arapça
Turkish
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арабська мова
Ukrainian
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arabšćina
Upper Sorbian
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ARA
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