Arabic
???????/????/???? al-?arabiyyah/?arab?
al-?Arabiyyah in written Arabic ( Naskh script)
Pronunciation	/al ?arabijja/ , /?arabiː/
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)

Arabic or Araibic ( ??????? al-?arab?yah [al?ara?bijja]  ( listen ) or ????/???? ?arab?  [??arabiː]  ( 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 .

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