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Arabic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Arabic language (Arabic: اللغة العربية transliterated al-lughah al-‘Arabīyyah), or simply Arabic (Arabic: عربي transliterated ‘Arabī), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. |
 | | Arabic has been a literary language since at least the 6th century and is the liturgical language of Islam. |
 | | Arabic is a major source of vocabulary for languages as diverse as Berber, Kurdish, Farsi, Swahili, Urdu, Hindi, Turkish, Malay, and Indonesian, as well as other languages in countries where these languages are spoken. |
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