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ABOUT THE ARABIC LANGUAGE
Arabic is an ancient and modern SEMITIC language
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Used as
the main language by more than 290 million, the majority of
which in the Middle East, and by all the main religious nations,
Islam, Christians, Jews, and others.
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Arabic
language is spreading very fast in the world and amongst
nations. It perhaps ranks 6th amongst the world languages. This
is due to the ever-enlarging relationship between the Arab world
and the international countries.
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The
Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters plus some symbols.
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Three
letters only are vowel letters, short or long.
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Writing
style in Arabic is from right to left. EX: the word AMERICA if
written in Arabic style should be written as ACIREMA
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Arabic
language is written cursively, with the letters connected to one
another: some letters connect only the preceding letters on the
right side but not to the left side letters. These are known as”
one-way connecters”.
Countries/Areas where Arabic is spoken
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