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      • For centuries, Arabic connected people through literature, music, poetry, and philosophy. It was the “lingua franca” for trade, art and science. Today, Arabic is a rich and vibrant language — uniting hundreds of millions of people across 22 Arabic-speaking countries and nearly 2 billion Muslims who use Arabic in their prayers and supplications.
  1. Dec 17, 2021 · The reason for the debate is establishing what constitutes the Arabic language as we know it today. Languages spoken today are evolved versions of languages that were spoken thousands of years...

  2. May 2, 2023 · Today, Arabic is one of the fastest-growing languages in the world. This growth is an undeniable testament to the enduring power and relevance of Arabic. It also proves the cultural and economic significance of the Arab world and North Africa on the global stage.

  3. Dec 18, 2015 · The British Council's Faraan Sayed shares some lesser-known facts about the language. There are more than 300 million Arabic speakers in the world. Arabic is the official language of the 22 countries that form the Arab League.

  4. Jan 23, 2015 · Medieval Arabic scholars developed a sophisticated philosophy of language that can teach us much today, says comparative literature professor Alexander Key. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons) The Arab world’s preoccupation with the mechanics of language has a long history.

  5. Today, Arabic is a rich and vibrant language — uniting hundreds of millions of people across 22 Arabic-speaking countries and nearly 2 billion Muslims who use Arabic in their prayers and...

  6. Feb 21, 2022 · 1. Egyptian. The Egyptian dialect is the Arab world's most spoken Arabic dialect with close to 100 million people using it in everyday life and tens of millions more outside of the country...

  7. Oct 25, 2024 · Arabic language, Semitic language spoken in a large area including North Africa, most of the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the Middle East. (See also Afro-Asiatic languages.) Scholars have struggled to define Arabic as a language.