Arabic

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Arabic is a Semitic language widely spoken across the Arab world and used as a liturgical language in Islam.

All labels observed (15)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Semitic language
liturgical language
macrolanguage
directionOfWriting right-to-left
hasCalligraphicStyle Diwani script
Kufic script
Naskh script
Ruqʿah script
Thuluth script
hasCalligraphicTradition Arabic calligraphy
hasDerivedScript Perso-Arabic script
hasDialectGroup Andalusian Arabic (historical)
linked to: Maghrebi Arabic

Egyptian Arabic
linked to: Arabic

Gulf Arabic
Hijazi Arabic
Levantine Arabic
Maghrebi Arabic
Mesopotamian Arabic
Najdi Arabic
linked to: Arabic

Sudanese Arabic
Yemeni Arabic
hasGrammaticalFeature case system
grammatical gender
verb conjugation by person, number, gender
hasMorphologicalFeature root-and-pattern morphology
triconsonantal roots
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
pharyngeal consonants
hasRegister Classical Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic
colloquial dialects
historicalForm Old Arabic
influencedLanguage Hausa
Indonesian
Malay
Persian
linked to: Persian language

Spanish
Swahili
linked to: Swahili language

Turkish
Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
isLanguageOf Arab culture
Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
Islamic philosophy
Islamic theology (kalam)
classical Arabic literature
pre-Islamic Arabic poetry
ISO639-1Code ar
ISO639-2Code ara
ISO639-3Code ara
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
liturgicalUseIn Islam
officialLanguageOf Algeria
Arab League
Bahrain
Chad
Comoros
Djibouti
Egypt
Eritrea
Iraq
Israel (as Modern Standard Arabic)
linked to: Arabic

Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Mauritania
Morocco
Oman
Palestine
linked to: State of Palestine

Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
State of Palestine
Sudan
Syria
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
oneOfSixOfficialLanguagesOf United Nations
religiousUseIn Islamic prayer
Islamic scholarship
sacredTextLanguageOf Quran
standardForm Classical Arabic
linked to: Arabic

Modern Standard Arabic
linked to: Arabic
subfamily Central Semitic languages
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn Middle East
North Africa
usedIn Arab world
writingSystem Arabic script
writingSystemVariant Arabic abjad

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Giza officialLanguage Arabic
Egypt nationalLanguage Egyptian Arabic
linked to: Arabic
Arabic standardForm Modern Standard Arabic
linked to: Arabic
Arabic standardForm Classical Arabic
linked to: Arabic
Arabic officialLanguageOf Israel (as Modern Standard Arabic)
linked to: Arabic
Arabic hasDialectGroup Egyptian Arabic
linked to: Arabic
Arabic hasDialectGroup Najdi Arabic
linked to: Arabic
Tunisia officialLanguage Arabic
Swahili language lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic language
linked to: Arabic
Beirut officialLanguage Arabic
Sharia languageOfTerm Arabic
Shahada languageOfCanonicalForm Arabic
subject linked to: Five Pillars of Islam
Algeria officialLanguage Arabic
Palestinian hasLanguage Arabic
Arabs macrolanguage Arabic language
linked to: Arabic
Israel officialLanguage Arabic
Urdu hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
subject linked to: Urdu language
Urdu hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Arabic
subject linked to: Urdu language
Old Arabic subclassOf Arabic language
linked to: Arabic
Levantine Arabic dialectOf Arabic
Maghrebi Arabic subclassOf Arabic
Hausa hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Mecca officialLanguage Arabic
Pashto language hasHistoricalInfluenceFrom Arabic language
linked to: Arabic
Pashto language hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic language
linked to: Arabic
Gulf Arabic subclassOf Arabic language
linked to: Arabic
Gulf Arabic languageGroup Arabic
Classical Arabic subclassOf Arabic language
linked to: Arabic
Coursera language Arabic
Qena officialLanguage Arabic
Lebanon officialLanguage Arabic
West Africa hasLinguaFranca Arabic language
linked to: Arabic
Islamic Spain language Arabic
Balochi influencedBy Arabic
Somalia officialLanguage Arabic
Hijazi Arabic partOf Arabic language continuum
linked to: Arabic