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Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [2] Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula. There are considerable variations from region to region, with degrees of mutual intelligibility that are often related ...
Modern Standard Arabic ( MSA) or Modern Written Arabic ( MWA) [3] is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, [4] [5] and in some usages also the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard. [6] MSA is the language used in literature, academia ...
October 27–28, 1933. British police. 4. 4 Palestinian rioters killed, 1 policeman stabbed, 3 Palestinian rioters wounded, 5 Jewish civilians injured by rioters, 4 of them seriously. Jaffa riots (April 1936) April 19–20, 1936. Arabs. 21. 9 Jews killed, 40 Jews wounded (11 critically) in Arab attack in Jaffa.
The Mu'allaqat ( Arabic: المعلقات, [al-muʕallaqaːt]) is the name given to a series of seven Arabic poems or qasida that originated before the time of Islam. Each poem in the set has a different author, and is considered to be their best work. Mu'allaqat means "The Suspended Odes" or "The Hanging Poems," and comes from the poems being ...
Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world as well as of Arabs who live in the diaspora, particularly in Latin America (especially Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Colombia) or Western Europe (like France, Spain, Germany or Italy ). Cypriot Arabic is a recognized minority language in the EU member state ...
The Arab world straddles two continents, Africa and Asia. It is mainly oriented along an east–west axis. [citation needed] The West Asian Arab region comprises the Arabian Peninsula, most of the Levant (excluding Cyprus and Israel), most of Mesopotamia (excluding parts of Turkey and Iran) and the Persian Gulf region.
Al Jazeera Arabic (Arabic: الجزيرة Al-Jazīrah [æl (d)ʒæˈziːrɐ], lit. ' The Peninsula ') is a Qatari state-owned Arabic-language news television network.It is based in Doha and operated by the Al Jazeera Media Network, which also operates Al Jazeera English.
Rank Country City Population Founding date Image 1 Egypt Cairo: 22,623,874 968 CE: 2 Iraq Baghdad: 8,126,755 762 CE: 3 Saudi Arabia Riyadh: 7,676,654 1746 CE: 4 Egypt ...