Arabic

Arabic
العربية/عربي/عربى al-ʻarabiyyah/ʻarabī
al-ʿArabiyyah in written Arabic (Naskh script)
Pronunciation	/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabiː/
Native tae	Majorities in the kintras o the Arab League, minorities in neighborin kintras: Israel, Iran, Turkey, Eritrea, Mali, Niger, Chad, Senegal, Sooth Sudan, Ethiopie, Arabic-speakin communities in the Wastren Warld
Native speakers	422 million (2008)
Leid faimily	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic
Staundart forms	Modren Staundart Arabic
Dialects	Wastren (Maghrebi) Central (incl. Egyptian, Sudanese) Northren (incl. Levantine, Mesopotamie) Southren (incl. Gulf, Hejazi)
Writin seestem	Arabic alphabet Arabic Braille Syriac alphabet (Garshuni) Hebrew alphabet (Judaeo-Arabic)
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Staundart Arabic is an offeecial leid o 27 states, the third maist efter Inglis an French Leet Algerie Bahrain Comoros Chad Djibouti Egyp Eritrea Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libie Mauritanie Morocco Oman Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabie Somalie Somaliland Sudan Sirie Tunisie Unitit Arab Emirates SADR Yemen African Union Arab League Organisation o Islamic Cooperation Unitit Naitions
Regulatit bi	Leet Algerie: Supreme Cooncil o the Arabic leid in Algerie Egyp: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Cairo Iraq: Iraqi Academy o Sciences Jordan: Jordan Academy o Arabic Libie: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Jamahiriya Morocco: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Rabat Saudi Arabie: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Riyadh Somalie: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Mogadishu Sudan: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Khartoum Sirie: Arab Academy o Damascus (the auldest) Tunisie: Beit Al-Hikma Foondation Israel: Academy o the Arabic Leid in Israel
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	ar
ISO 639-2	ara
ISO 639-3	ara
Dispersion of Arabic dialects
Uise o Arabic as the sole offeecial leid (green) an an offeecial leid (blue)

Arabic or Araibic (العربية al-ʻarabīyah [alʕaraˈbijja] ( listen) or عربي/عربى ʻarabī  [ˈʕarabiː] ( listen)) is the leid that is mainly uised throu oot the Arabic warld, the Arab States, North Africae an the Mids East, an it is the 5t maist spoken leid in the warld. It haes influenced ither leids an aw, mainly ither leids in the Islamic warld, but leids in airts whaur thare wis Arab rule, sic as the Spainish leid, the Portuguese leid an the Sicilian leid. It is the offeecial leid o 25 kintras, the thrid maist efter Inglis an French.