Arabic languages
Arabic languages include Algerian, Lebanese, North African Arabic and many other variants.
| Dialectal Arabic | |
|---|---|
| العربي اللهجية | |
| Native to | Arab world |
| Ethnicity | Arabs |
| Native speakers | 350 million (date missing)[1] |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic
|
| Standard forms | |
| Dialects | |
| Writing system | Arabic alphabet |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| 300px Map of the dispersion of dialectal Arabic speakers | |
Arabic Languages Media
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
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
References
- ↑ "Arabic – Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Simons, Gary F. and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2021. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 24th edition. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
