مرحبا!
say it: “MAR-ha-ban”
Arabic
in its own words: العربية
- Speakers
- 400 million (estimate)
- Family
- Afroasiatic – Semitic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Comoros, Kuwait, Lebanon and 13 more
- Script
- Arabic
- Official language
- Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and 14 more
Fun fact
Arabic script runs right to left, and letters have up to four forms depending on position (isolated, initial, medial, final).