Lesson 1 - Part A: al-ʻarabiyyah/ʻarabī .

Lesson 1 - Part A

Arabic
Arabic: al-ʻarabiyyah/ʻarabī
al-ʿArabiyyah in written Arabic (Naskh script)
Pronunciation	/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Native to	Countries of the Arab League, minorities in neighboring countries: Israel, Eritrea, Mali, Niger, Kenya, Chad, Senegal, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Iran, Turkey, Madagascar, Tanzania, Mozambique etc.
Native speakers	290 million  (2010)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Arabic
Standard forms	Modern Standard Arabic
Dialects	Western (Maghrebi) Central (incl. Egyptian, Sudanese) Northern (incl. Levantine, Mesopotamian) Peninsular (Gulf, Hejazi, Najdi, Yemeni)
Writing system	Arabic alphabet Arabic Braille Syriac alphabet (Garshuni) Hebrew alphabet (Judeo-Arabic languages) Greek alphabet (Cypriot Maronite Arabic) Latin script (Maltese)
Signed forms	Signed Arabic (national forms)
Official status
Official language in	Modern Standard Arabic is an official language of 27 states, the third most after English and French[2]  Algeria  Bahrain  Comoros  Chad  Djibouti  Egypt  Eritrea  Iraq  Israel  Jordan  Kuwait  Lebanon  Libya  Mauritania  Morocco  Oman  Palestine  Qatar  SADR  Saudi Arabia  Somalia  Somaliland  Sudan  Syria  Tunisia  United Arab Emirates  Yemen  African Union  Arab League  Organisation of Islamic Cooperation  United Nations
	Algeria: Supreme Council of the Arabic language in Algeria  Egypt: Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo  Iraq: Iraqi Academy of Sciences  Jordan: Jordan Academy of Arabic  Libya: Academy of the Arabic Language in Jamahiriya  Morocco: Academy of the Arabic Language in Rabat  Saudi Arabia: Academy of the Arabic Language in Riyadh  Somalia: Academy of the Arabic Language in Mogadishu  Sudan: Academy of the Arabic Language in Khartoum  Syria: Arab Academy of Damascus (the oldest)  Tunisia: Beit Al-Hikma Foundation  Israel: Academy of the Arabic Language in Israel
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ar
ISO 639-2	ara
ISO 639-3	ara
Glottolog	arab1395[3]
Linguasphere	12-AAC
Countries where Arabic holds official status
Use of Arabic as the sole official language (green) and an official language (majority: dark blue; minority: light blue)
Source: Wikipedia  [1]: Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2010" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2010 [2]: Wright (2001:492) [3]: Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Arabic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.