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About Arabic: Source Wikipedia.org
al-‘Arabiyyah in written Arabic (Naskh script):
Spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen by a majority; it is also the liturgical language of Islam.
Total speakers: Estimates of native speakers between 186 and 422 million [1]. According to Ethnologue, 246 million including second language speakers, (1999 est).
Ranking: 2 [2] to 6[3] (native speakers)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Arabic
Writing system: Arabic alphabet
Official status
Official language in: Official language of 25 countries, the third most after English and French[4]
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