Standard Arabic

Standard Arabic

العربية الفصحى
274M speakers · Afroasiatic Semitic · Arabic
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At a Glance

Written in the arabic script, written right-to-left. Uses VSO word order with fusional morphology. Notable features include 2 grammatical genders, 3 noun cases, a politeness/honorific system, pronoun dropping.

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