Arabic is a language & a culture

The Arabic language is complex and has many surprising facts you may be unaware of. Arabic is one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world, with approximately 290 million native speakers and 132 million non-native speakers. It is spoken by Arabs across the Middle East and in some countries in Africa and Asia, where it is an official language. It is listed as one of the top languages to learn in order to be hired internationally.

Arabic Language Facts Arabic contains many words that have more than one pronunciation and meaning. Use diacritic marks to denote the right pronunciation and eliminate ambiguity.

Arabic is spoken in more than 20 countries. Arabic is classified as a member of the Semitic family of languages. Arabic’s spoken dialects include: North African Arabic: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya

Hassaniya Arabic: Mauritania

Egyptian Arabic: Egypt

Levantine Arabic: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine

Iraqi Arabic: Iraq Gulf Arabic: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman

Hejazi Arabic: Western Saudi Arabia

Najdi Arabic: Central Saudi Arabia

Yemeni Arabic: Yemen & Southwestern Saudi Arabic

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the language used in all written work, such as printed material and customer and corporate communications across Arabic-speaking regions. Words are written from right-to-left. Numbers are written from left-to-right. One big difference between the English and Arabic languages is that Arabic letters are only written in cursive.

Arabic doesn’t use abbreviations or capitalising