Arabic languages

Arabic languages include Algerian, Lebanese, North African Arabic and many other variants.

Dialectal Arabic
العربي اللهجيةcode: ar is deprecated
Native to	Arab world
Ethnicity	Arabs
Native speakers	350 million  (date missing)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic North Arabian Arabic Dialectal Arabic
Standard forms	Modern Standard Arabic
Dialects	Egypto-Sudanic Arabic Levantine Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Mesopotamian Arabic Peninsular Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Map of the dispersion of dialectal Arabic speakers

Arabic Languages Media

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  2023 map of the geographical distribution of the various varieties of Arabic recognized by the ISO 639-3 standard, including Arabic-based creoles but excluding Ju

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  Arabic diglossia diagram according to El-Said Badawi*a-b: fuṣḥā end *c-d: colloquial (‘āmmiyya) end *a-g-e and e-h-b: pure fuṣḥā *c-g-f and f-h-d: pure colloquial *e-g-f-h: overlap of fuṣḥā and colloquial *a-g-c and b-h-d: foreign (dakhīl) influence