Arabic language

Arabic (العربية al-'arabiyyah, or less formally 'arabi) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. It is spoken throughout the Arab world and is widely studied and known throughout the Islamic world. Arabic has been a literary language since at least the 6th century and is the liturgical language of Islam.

External links

• Arabic-Media on-line access to Arabic newspapers, radio, and television
• Learn Arabic language online with audio pronunciation from St. Takla Egyptian Church
• Links to learn Arabic language with online course
• Arabic language learning course with audio
• "Antonyms in Arabic are a strange phenomenon" by Tamim al-Barghouti
• "The Development of Classical Arabic" by Kees Versteegh
• Wellesley College Professor of Arabic on the forms and dialects of the language
• Multilingual Computing in Arabic with Windows, major word processors, web browsers, Arabic keyboards, and Arabic transliteration fonts

Web references and examples:

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• Learn Arabic
• E2 article
• Sprachprofi
• Arabic - English Dictionary: from Webster's Online Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
• SIL's Ethnologue
• Dialects of Arabic

Arabic Sample Languages:

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• Arabic
• Arabic Chadian Spoken
• Arabic Judeo Iraqi
• Arabic North Levantine Spoken
• "The Development of Classical Arabic" by Kees Versteegh