Arabic, Standard

Endonyms

العربية‎ (al-ʻArabīyah)

Alternate Names

Standard Arabic, Arabic (Standard), Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

Identifiers
ISO code

arb

Glottocode

stan1318

Metadata
Countries of origin

Saudi Arabia, Somaliland, Lebanon, Djibouti, Qatar, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Also spoken in

Djibouti, Lebanon, Qatar, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Saudi Arabia, Somaliland

Writing systems

Arabic, Braille

Linguistic genealogy

Afro-Asiatic

EGIDS Status

1 - National

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