![]() At its core, Arabic developed through a predominantly oral and poetic tradition that flourished in the Arabian Peninsula before the emergence of Islam and a codified Arabic script. The Arabic script is widely used in art through calligraphy and it is now common to see more modern and contemporary Arabic art being produced; some of it uses a fusion of calligraphy and graffiti, known as calligraffiti. |
![]() The adjective Arabic is commonly used in reference to language, and in traditional phrases such as Arabic numeral or gum arabic. Its use is controversial and often deprecated in reference to people or countries, where the adjective Arab is preferred. |
![]() An Arabic speaker from Iraq, for example, can find it almost impossible to understand a local Algerian, and vice versa even though both individuals are speaking a particular form of Arabic dialect. However, both will be able to communicate in Modern Standard Arabic. |
![]() A language of Saudi Arabia. Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central South Arabic. Language Resources OLAC resources in and about Arabic, Standard. Al-Arabiyya, Literary Arabic. This profile is available. with an Essentials plan. See population estimates, location, and other details for Arabic, Standard, plus.: |
![]() A language of Saudi Arabia. Language Resources OLAC resources in and about Arabic. This profile is available. with an Essentials plan. See population estimates, location, and other details for Arabic, plus.: 7,458, profiles on every other language in the world. |
![]() Many countries speak Arabic as an official language, but not all of them speak it the same way. The language has many dialects, or varieties, such as Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Gulf Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic, Levantine Arabic and many others. |
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![]() The third year of the course is spent at an Arab university or Language Institute in the Middle East, where students study the colloquial language as well as Modern Standard Arabic, and write an extended essay in Arabic view example of past prize-winning essays. |
![]() In contrast, the traditional written form of Arabic is called al-lugha al-'arabiyya' al-fusha, the eloquent Arabic language, or, for short, al-fusha: the eloquent. Western academics call it modern standard Arabic, although the language retains strong links to the time of Muhammed. |