Arabic language

Old Arabic is the earliest attested stage of the Arabic language, beginning with the first attestation of personal names in the 9th century BC, and culminating in the codification of Classical Arabic beginning in the 7th century AD.

The Nabataean language was the Western Aramaic variety spoken by the Nabataeans of the Negev, the east bank of the Jordan River and the Sinai Peninsula.

Arabic names were historically based on a long naming system; most Arabs did not have given/middle/family names, but a full chain of names.

Classical Arabic (CA), also known as Quranic Arabic or occasionally Mudari Arabic, is the form of the Arabic language used in literary texts from Umayyad and Abbasid times (7th to 9th centuries).

It differs from more formal and academic Arabic transliteration systems, as it avoids diacritics by freely using digits and multigraphs for letters that do not exist in the basic Latin script (ASCII).

There are many varieties of Arabic (dialects or otherwise) in existence.

Al- (Arabic: ال‎‎, also transliterated as el- as pronounced in varieties of Arabic) is the definite article in the Arabic language: a particle (ḥarf) whose function is to render the noun on which it is prefixed definite.

The Academy of the Arabic Language (Arabic: مجمع اللغة العربية‎‎; Hebrew: אקדמיה ללשון ערבית‎‎) is an institute for the study and research of the Arabic language in Israel.

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA; Arabic: اللغة العربية الفصحى‎‎ al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah al-fuṣḥá 'the most eloquent Arabic language'), Standard Arabic, or Literary Arabic is the standardized and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in most formal speech.

Judeo-Iraqi Arabic (also known as Iraqi Judeo-Arabic and Yahudic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Iraqi Jews currently or formerly living in Iraq.

Judeo-Tunisian Arabic is a variety of Tunisian Arabic mainly spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Tunisia.

Baghdad Jewish Arabic is the Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Baghdad and other towns of Southern Iraq.

Abjjad is the first Arabic social network for readers, authors, and bloggers in the Middle East.

Arabic (Arabic: العَرَبِيَّة‎‎, Al-ʻarabiyyah [ʔalʕaraˈbijːah] or Arabic: عَرَبِيّ‎‎ ʻarabiyy [ʕaraˈbijː] ) is the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century and its modern descendants, excluding Maltese.

Khorasani Arabic is a dialect of Arabic spoke in Iran.

UN Arabic Language Day is observed annually on December 18.

The Jordan Academy of Arabic (Arabic: مجمع اللغة العربية الأردني‎‎) is one of the Arabic language regulators based in Amman, Jordan.

While many languages have numerous dialects that differ in phonology, the contemporary spoken Arabic language is more properly described as a continuum of varieties.

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation (CIDT) is an Egyptian organization founded in 2005 to select, review, and translate Arab media publications The reviews are then published in the electronic magazine Arab-West Report.

Arablish, a portmanteau combining the words Arabic and English, is a slang term for the phenomenon of code-switching between the two languages and/or macaronically using features of one in the other.

Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic (also known as Tripolitanian Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Tripolitanian-Libyan Arabic, Tripolita'it, Yudi) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews formerly living in Libya.

Arabic has had a great influence on other languages, especially in vocabulary.