Arabic language

A community portal about Arabic language with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Arabic language, or simply Arabic, is the largest member of the family of Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family and is... [more]

A community portal about Arabic language with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Arabic language, or simply Arabic, is the largest member of the family of Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family and is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. It is spoken throughout the Arab world and is widely studied and known throughout the Islamic world. Classical Arabic has been a literary language since at least the 6th century and is the liturgical language of Islam. Because of its liturgical role, Arabic has lent many words to other Islamic languages, akin to the role Latin has in Western European languages. During the Middle Ages Arabic was also a major vehicle of culture, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy, with the result that many European languages have also borrowed numerous words from it. The Arabic script is written from right to left.