Arabic

Arabic or Araibic (العربية al-ʻarabīyah [alʕaraˈbijja] ( listen) or عربي/عربى ʻarabī  [ˈʕarabiː] ( listen)) is the leid that is mainly uised throu oot the Arabic warld, the Arab States, North Africae an the Mids East, an it is the 5t maist spoken leid in the warld. It haes influenced ither leids an aw, mainly ither leids in the Islamic warld, but leids in airts whaur thare wis Arab rule, sic as the Spainish leid, the Portuguese leid an the Sicilian leid. It is the offeecial leid o 25 kintras, the thrid maist efter Inglis an French.

Arabic
العربية/عربي/عربى al-ʻarabiyyah/ʻarabī
al-ʿArabiyyah in written Arabic (Naskh script)
Pronunciation	/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabiː/
Native tae	Majorities in the kintras o the Arab League, minorities in neighborin kintras: Israel, Iran, Turkey, Eritrea, Mali, Niger, Chad, Senegal, Sooth Sudan, Ethiopie, Arabic-speakin communities in the Wastren Warld
Native speakers	422 million (2008)[1][2] [3]
Leid faimily	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic
Staundart forms	Modren Staundart Arabic
Dialects	Wastren (Maghrebi) Central (incl. Egyptian, Sudanese) Northren (incl. Levantine, Mesopotamie) Southren (incl. Gulf, Hejazi)
Writin seestem	Arabic alphabet Arabic Braille Syriac alphabet (Garshuni) Hebrew alphabet (Judaeo-Arabic)
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Staundart Arabic is an offeecial leid o 27 states, the third maist efter Inglis an French[4] Leet  Algerie  Bahrain  Comoros  Chad  Djibouti  Egyp  Eritrea  Iraq  Israel  Jordan  Kuwait  Lebanon  Libie  Mauritanie  Morocco  Oman  Palestine  Qatar  Saudi Arabie  Somalie  Somaliland  Sudan  Sirie  Tunisie  Unitit Arab Emirates  SADR  Yemen  African Union  Arab League  Organisation o Islamic Cooperation  Unitit Naitions
Regulatit bi	Leet  Algerie: Supreme Cooncil o the Arabic leid in Algerie  Egyp: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Cairo  Iraq: Iraqi Academy o Sciences  Jordan: Jordan Academy o Arabic  Libie: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Jamahiriya  Morocco: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Rabat  Saudi Arabie: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Riyadh  Somalie: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Mogadishu  Sudan: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Khartoum  Sirie: Arab Academy o Damascus (the auldest)  Tunisie: Beit Al-Hikma Foondation  Israel: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Israel
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	ar
ISO 639-2	ara
ISO 639-3	ara
Dispersion of Arabic dialects
Uise o Arabic as the sole offeecial leid (green) an an offeecial leid (blue)

References

1. Unesco
2. Khaled Yahya Huthaily (2008). Second Language Instruction with Phonological Knowledge: Teaching Arabic to Speakers of English. ProQuest. p. 15. ISBN 9780549556381.^{[deid airtin]}
3. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002191/219174E.pdf
4. Wright (2001:492)

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