Arabic: Arabic

Arabic Word of the Day

Arabic Language Facts:

• Spoken by 120 million people in the Middle East and North Africa.
• There are two main types of Arabic:
  • Classical Arabic
  •  Modern Standard Arabic
• Each Arabic speaking country or region has its own version of informal spoken Arabic 
• Has 28 letters
• Letters are written from right to left
• Letters change depending on whether they appear at the beginning, middle, end or alone
• Numerals are written left to right