Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic is its direct descendant used today throughout the Arab world in writing and in formal speaking, for example, prepared speeches, some radio broadcasts, and non-entertainment content. While the lexis and stylistics of Modern Standard Arabic are different from Classical Arabic, the morphology and syntax have remained basically unchanged (though Modern Standard Arabic uses a subset of the syntactic structures available in Classical Arabic). In the Arab world, little distinction is made between Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, and both are normally called "al-fuṣḥā" () in Arabic, meaning 'the eloquent'.