With more than 300 million speakers around the world, Arabic is a language that certainly can’t be dismissed by global organizations. Yet, many companies struggle with Arabic localization, the language’s right-to-left-format as well as other specialties that provide lots of challenges.
Arabic is one of the most widely used Semitic languages. It is an official language in 25 countries/states, mainly in the Middle East region. It is spoken by about 374 millions, making Arabic the fifth most-spoken language in the world, based on the number of speakers. It is also one of the six official languages of the UN.
A brief history of the Arabic language
Arabic is the only surviving member of the North Arabian languages used in the fourth century and is a descendant of the Classical Arabic language of the sixth century. The Arabic language was preserved because it is the language of Islam’s holy book “Al-Qur’an” and Islamic prayers cannot be completed without correctly reading parts of “Al-Qur’an”. Arabic is also used in prayers in some Christian churches in Arab regions.
Arabs now use the Modern Standard Arabic, which is the language derived from the Classical Arabic of ...
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