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Language Family and Writing System |
| Writing System |
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Arabic |
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| Script(s) Used |
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(al Arabiya) |
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| Family |
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Afro-asiatic |
6% World Languages have Afro-Asiatic
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| Subgroup |
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Semitic |
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| 3 Letter Code |
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Ara |
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Number of Speakers |
| Number of Native speakers (millions) |
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Language Systems |
| Noun declensions |
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Three Cases |
3% World Languages have Three cases |
| Sequence |
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VSO |
4.5% World Languages have VSO |
| Tonal |
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No |
80.6% World Languages don't have Tonal |
| Agglutinative language |
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No |
85.1% World Languages don't have Agglutinative language |
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Geographic Distribution |
| Official language in |
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Algeria
Bahrain
Chad
Comoros
Djibouti
Egypt
Eritrea
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Mauritania
Morocco
Oman
Palestine
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Western Sahara
Yemen |
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| Official Language of United Nations |
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Yes |
10.4% World Languages have Official Language of United Nations |
| Countries Spoken In |
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Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen, Niger, Mali, Senegal |
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