This article is about the general language (macrolanguage). For specific varieties of Arabic and other uses, see Arabic (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Amharic or Aramaic.

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah) is a Semitic language that first appeared in the mid-ninth century BCE in Northern Arabia and Sahara southern Levant.

The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic: ويكيبيديا العربية) is the Modern Standard Arabic version of Wikipedia. It started on 9 July 2003. As of May 2025, it has 1,262,591 articles, 2,716,678 registered users and 55,058 files and it is the 17th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 7th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.

Arabic and its different dialects are spoken by around 422 million speakers (native and non-native) in the Arab world as well as in the Arab diaspora making it one of the five most spoken languages in the world.

This article is about the extant varieties of Arabic. For the historical language family, see Classification of Arabic languages.

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Mar 27, 2025 · Arabic language, a Semitic language spoken in areas including North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the Middle East. The language of the Qur’an (the sacred book of Islam) is often considered the ideal archetype of Arabic’s many varieties, and the literary standard closely approaches that archetype.

Arabic (endonym: اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, romanized: al-ʿarabiyyah, pronounced [al ʕaraˈbijːa] ⓘ, or عَرَبِيّ, ʿarabīy, pronounced [ˈʕarabiː] ⓘ or [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic: وِيكِيبِيدْيَا الْعَرَبِيَّةُ) is the Arabic language version of Wikipedia. It started in September 2001.