Afroasiatic languages
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The Afroasiatic languages are a language family of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people a
Seal impression from the tomb of Seth-Peribsen (c. 2690 BCE), containing the first complete sentence in Ancient Egyptian.
Arabic
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Arabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization assigns language codes to 32 varieties of
Afroasiatic languages
…continent, including all those not belonging to the Semitic branch (which originated in West Asia). The five most spoken languages in the family are: Arabic (of all varieties), which is by far the most widely spoken within the family, with estimates of the number of native speakers ranging between 300 and…
Safaitic inscription
The Namara inscription of the Lakhmid king Imru al-Qays I ibn Amr, a sample of Nabataean script, considered a direct precursor of Arabic script
Arabic from the Quran in the old Hijazi dialect (Hijazi script, 7th century AD)
The Qur'an has served and continues to serve as a fundamental reference for Arabic. (Maghrebi Kufic script, Blue Qur'an, 9th–10th century.)