Arabic | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 01/01/2019

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00:03:18 1 History
00:03:27 1.1 Classification
00:05:36 1.2 Old Arabic
00:07:01 1.3 Old Hejazi and Classical Arabic
00:08:50 1.4 Neo-Arabic
00:09:58 2 Classical, Modern Standard and spoken Arabic
00:15:05 3 Language and dialect
00:17:30 4 Influence of Arabic on other languages
00:20:54 5 Influence of other languages on Arabic
00:22:35 6 Arabic alphabet and nationalism
00:22:58 6.1 Lebanon
00:23:39 6.2 Egypt
00:25:20 7 The language of the Quran and its influence on poetry
00:25:51 7.1 Quran's figurative devices
00:27:13 7.2 Structure
00:28:28 7.3 Culture and the Quran
00:30:13 7.4 Arabic and Islam
00:31:18 8 Dialects and descendants
00:33:12 8.1 Examples
00:33:33 8.2 Koiné
00:34:51 8.3 Dialect groups
00:41:22 9 Phonology
00:41:31 9.1 History
00:44:54 9.2 Literary Arabic
00:49:41 9.2.1 Vowels
00:52:24 9.2.2 Consonants
00:55:34 9.2.3 Syllable structure
00:57:37 9.2.4 Stress
00:59:02 9.2.5 Levels of pronunciation
01:00:44 9.2.5.1 Full pronunciation with pausa
01:01:07 9.2.5.2 Formal short pronunciation
01:02:06 9.2.5.3 Informal short pronunciation
01:03:48 9.3 Colloquial varieties
01:07:03 9.3.1 Vowels
01:07:12 9.3.2 Consonants
01:09:18 10 Grammar
01:12:49 10.1 Literary Arabic
01:12:58 10.1.1 Nouns and adjectives
01:14:56 10.1.2 Verbs
01:17:10 10.1.3 Derivation
01:18:46 10.2 Colloquial varieties
01:21:35 11 Writing system
01:22:15 11.1 Calligraphy
01:23:16 11.2 Romanization
01:24:20 11.3 Numerals
01:27:09 12 Language-standards regulators
01:28:11 13 As a foreign language
01:28:42 14 Arabic speakers and other languages
01:29:52 15 See also



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Arabic (Arabic: العَرَبِيَّة‎) al-ʻarabiyyah [alʕaraˈbijːa] (listen) or (Arabic: عَرَبِيّ‎) ʻarabī [ˈʕarabiː] (listen) or Arabic pronunciation: [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Central Semitic language that first emerged in Iron Age northwestern Arabia and is now the lingua franca of the Arab world. It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living from Mesopotamia in the east to the Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west, in northwestern Arabia, and in the Sinai Peninsula. Arabic is classified as a macrolanguage comprising 30 modern varieties, including its standard form, Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic.
As the modern written language, Modern Standard Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities, and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, government, and the media. The two formal varieties are grouped together as Literary Arabic (fuṣḥā), which is the official language of 26 states and the liturgical language of Islam. Modern Standard Arabic largely follows the grammatical standards of Classical Arabic, and uses much of the same vocabulary. However, it has discarded some grammatical constructions and vocabulary that no longer have any counterpart in the spoken varieties, and has adopted certain new constructions and vocabulary from the spoken varieties. Much of the new vocabulary is used to denote concepts that have arisen in the post-classical era, especially in modern times.
During the Middle Ages, Literary Arabic was a major vehicle of culture in Europe, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy. As a result, many European languages have also borrowed many words from it. Arabic influence, mainly in vocabulary, is seen in European languages, mainly Spanish and to a lesser extent Portuguese, Galician, and Catalan, owing to both the proximity of Christian European and Muslim Arab civilizations and 800 years of Arabic culture and language in the Iberian Peninsula, referred to in Arabic as al-Andalus. Sicilian has about 500 Arabic words as result of Sicily being progressively conquered by Arabs from North Africa, from the mid-9th to mid-10th centuries. Man ...