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

Writing systems

Arabic, Braille

Linguistic genealogy

Afro-Asiatic

EGIDS Status

1 - National

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