Arabic
Semitic language and lingua franca of the Arab world
Also known as Arabic language · Arabian · Arabian language
- Speakers
- 315M(2019)
1
- , 295M(2010)
1
- , 422M(2012)
- 315M(2019)
- Subclass of
- Semitic
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Archaeology & Language
- 2.Stated in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
- Semitic
- Indigenous to
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
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All data
305 statements · 19% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Short name
- арабский
- ərəbcə
- العربية
- арабша
- араббаг
- арабська
- арабская
- арабӣ
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- арабски
- arabă
- Country
- Egypt
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Egypt”scriptsource.org/country/EGRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Algeria
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Algeria”scriptsource.org/country/DZRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Sudan
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Sudan”scriptsource.org/country/SDRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Iraq
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Iraq”scriptsource.org/country/IQRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Morocco
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Morocco”scriptsource.org/country/MARetrieved 2023-08-21
- Saudi Arabia
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Saudi Arabia”scriptsource.org/country/SARetrieved 2023-08-21
- Yemen
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Yemen”scriptsource.org/country/YERetrieved 2023-08-21
- Syria
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Syria”scriptsource.org/country/SYRetrieved 2023-08-21
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- Tunisia
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Tunisia”scriptsource.org/country/TNRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Somalia
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Somalia”scriptsource.org/country/SORetrieved 2023-08-21
- Chad
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Chad”scriptsource.org/country/TDRetrieved 2023-08-21
- United Arab Emirates
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - United Arab Emirates”scriptsource.org/country/AERetrieved 2023-08-21
- Jordan
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Jordan”scriptsource.org/country/JORetrieved 2023-08-21
- Eritrea
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Eritrea”scriptsource.org/country/ERRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Libya
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Libya”scriptsource.org/country/LYRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Lebanon
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Lebanon”scriptsource.org/country/LBRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Palestine
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Palestine”scriptsource.org/country/PSRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Oman
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Oman”scriptsource.org/country/OMRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Mauritania
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Mauritania”scriptsource.org/country/MRRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Kuwait
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Kuwait”scriptsource.org/country/KWRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Qatar
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Qatar”scriptsource.org/country/QARetrieved 2023-08-21
- Bahrain
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Bahrain”scriptsource.org/country/BHRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Djibouti
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Djibouti”scriptsource.org/country/DJRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Comoros
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Comoros”scriptsource.org/country/KMRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Israel
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Israel”scriptsource.org/country/ILRetrieved 2023-08-21
- South Sudan
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - South Sudan”scriptsource.org/country/SSRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Mali
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Mali”scriptsource.org/country/MLRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Niger
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Niger”scriptsource.org/country/NERetrieved 2023-08-21
- Iran
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Iran”scriptsource.org/country/IRRetrieved 2023-08-21
- Spain
- Kenya
- Senegal
- Tanzania
- Turkey
- Romania
- Portugal
- Malaysia
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Malaysia”scriptsource.org/country/MYRetrieved 2025-02-09
- Indonesia
1
Sources- 1.“ScriptSource - Indonesia”scriptsource.org/country/IDRetrieved 2025-02-09
- Egypt
- Native label
- اللُّغَة العَرَبِيّة
- Related category
- Category:Arabic pronunciation category contains: pronunciation
- Entry in abbreviations table
- араб. used by: Словарь собственных имён русского языка
- Kar used by: MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary
- Ar. used by: A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, Kubbealti Lugati
- ع used by: Urdu Lughat, Dehkhoda Dictionary
- عر used by: PILAC Dictionary
- ء used by: Q121323032
- A. used by: New Persian-English Dictionary, Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani. Part I. Dictionary
- ਅ਼. used by: Mahan Kosh
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- 阿 used by: 银川方言词典
- Members / parts
- Modern Standard Arabic
- Hassaniya Arabic
- Moroccan Arabic
- Algerian Saharan Arabic
- Algerian Arabic
- Tunisian Arabic
- Libyan Arabic
- Egyptian Arabic
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- Bedawi Arabic
- Saʽidi Arabic
- Shuwa
- Sudanese Arabic
- Juba Arabic
- Najdi Arabic
- Levantine Arabic
- North Mesopotamian Arabic
- Iraqi Arabic
- Gulf Arabic
- Bahrani Arabic
- Hijazi Saudi
- Shihhi Arabic
- Omani Arabic
- Dhofari Arabic
- Sanʽani Arabic
- Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic
- Hadhrami Arabic
- Uzbeki Arabic
- Tajiki Arabic
- Cypriot Arabic
- Maltese
- Nubi
- Shirvani Arabic
- Central Asian Arabic
- Judeo-Arabic
- Saudi Arabic
- Has grammatical person
- first-person singular subject lexeme: L7883
- first-person plural subject lexeme: L1462486
- second-person singular masculine subject lexeme: L1462490
- second-person singular feminine subject lexeme: L1462491
- second-person dual masculine subject lexeme: L1462501
- second-person dual feminine subject lexeme: L1462502
- second-person plural subject lexeme: L1462487
- second-person plural feminine subject lexeme: L1462492
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- third-person masculine singular subject lexeme: L1422423
- third-person feminine singular subject lexeme: L1422436
- third-person masculine dual subject lexeme: L1462506
- third-person feminine dual subject lexeme: L1462505
- third-person masculine plural subject lexeme: L1462489
- third-person feminine plural subject lexeme: L1462488
On other databases
122 identifiers linking Arabic across the web's reference databases
- ABS ASCL 2011 code4202
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID160184
- Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID151037869
- Archive of Our Own tagعربي | Arabic
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300387843
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID294898948
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/1490
- Babelio subject ID79035
- BabelNet ID00005267n
- BBC Things ID666fa90c-b2cf-4050-95f7-f3e9ae87bd46
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11930928b
- BNCF Thesaurus ID6095
- Britannica Kids scholars level article ID8157
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDarabische-sprache
- Concise Literary Encyclopedia ID1-2691
- Deaf Movie Database language IDarabic
- Dewey Decimal Classification492.7
- Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID378
- Digital Scriptorium Catalog item IDQ118
- El Watan topic IDarabe
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/Arabic-language
- Encyclopaedia Islamica IDCOM-0290
- Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) IDCOM-0061
- Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) IDCOM-0061
- Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) IDCOM-24231
- Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān IDEQCOM-00015
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDarabe-monde-langue
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID190477
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)1Heayi
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)27936
- Ethnologue.com language codeara
- EU Knowledge Graph item IDQ4331
- FactGrid item IDQ389598
- Fandom wiki IDru.arabian
- FAST ID812287
- Freebase ID/m/0jzc
- GitHub topicarabic-language
- Glottolog codearab1395
- GND ID4241223-7
- Golden ID (archived)Arabic-E4R
- GOST 7.75–97 codeара 050
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDarabisk
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDarabskii-iazyk-59f231
- Harper's tagarabic-language
- IAB code1038
- IdRef ID027219623
- IETF language tagar
- IMDb interest IDin0000213
- Interlingual Index IDi73365
- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia IDA/arabic-language
- Iranica IDarabic-index
- ISO 639-1 codear
- ISO 639-2 codeara
- ISO 639-3 codeara
- ISOCAT ID555
- J9U entity ID987007294709605171
- Joconde inscription IDT520-157
- KBpedia IDClassicalArabicWriting
- Klexikon article IDArabische_Sprache
- Krugosvet article (archived)gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvistika/ARABSKI_YAZIK.html
- LC and MARC vocabularies IDlanguages/ara
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85006306
- Library of Congress ClassificationAI19.A6
- Libris-URIkhwzx8833mdqcp5
- Lille norske leksikon IDarabisk
- Lingua Libre IDQ219
- Linguasphere code12-AAC
- LyricsTranslate IDlanguage/arabic
- McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia IDA/arabic-language
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)96455323
- Museum-digital tag ID48077
- Namuwiki ID아랍어
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDterm/5aa77c6f-9a9f-4832-9aaa-c51f878fb6f5
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX528287
- NCI Thesaurus IDC153339
- NDL Authority ID00560295
- NE.se IDarabiska
- New York Post topic IDarabic
- NicoNicoPedia word article IDアラビア語
- NL CR AUT IDph118564
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning6093
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3870569
- Open Language Archives Community language codeara
- Open Library subject IDarabic_language
- OpenAlex IDC96455323
- OpenStreetMap keyname:ar
- OpenStreetMap Wiki item IDQ1535
- Oxford Reference overview ID20110915102159617
- PACTOLS thesaurus IDpcrtbc04dWYYvE
- Personality Database profile ID179489
