Arabic, the language of Arabs, belongs to Semitic family, which is mainly used in West Asia and North Africa, and is the official language of the following 2 1 countries and regions:
Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Mauritania, Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Somalia and Morocco.
More than 260 million people speak Arabic as their mother tongue.
Arabic originated from an ancient language, Semite, and formed a unified Arabic literary language on the basis of northern dialects around the 5th century.
With the rise and expansion of the Arab Empire in the 7th century, this language soon became the lingua franca of all ethnic groups in the vast areas from the Indus River in the east, Gibraltar in the west, North Africa in the south and Caspian Sea in the north. In the Middle Ages of Europe, it was a medium language to preserve Greek culture and communicate with eastern and western cultures.
Extended data:
Arabic alphabet belongs to Aramaic alphabet, 28 letters represent consonants, and vowel symbols are only added in the Koran. When the Koran was first finalized, only 17 people in the Arabian Peninsula could write Arabic, and the suffix stage was added after the 1960s. At the end of the 7 th century and the beginning of the 8 th century, the stage of letter dot was added; In the middle of the 8th century, phonetic symbols were added.
In the 8th century, Arabic was used in Arab countries as an academic and political language. /kloc-after the 0/0 century, use spoken Arabic in your own area.
Arabic is written continuously, unlike hieroglyphics in which each character is written separately. This means that the writing form of Arabic letters will be influenced by the context.
In Arabic letters, double consonants are represented by tashdeed (a symbol similar to W).
The Koran is written in Arabic letters. There are several languages in the world that use Arabic letters, including Persian and Urdu. But these languages are different from the alphabet used in Arabic.
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