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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
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.)
Arabic alphabet
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The Arabic alphabet, or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is a unicameral script written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and in
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…Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Arabic the fourth–most useful language for business, after English, Mandarin Chinese, and French. Arabic is written with the Arabic alphabet, an abjad script that is written from right to left. During the Middle Ages, Arabic was a major vehicle of culture and learning, especially in science…
Musnad script as is clear from one of the Sabaean inscriptions.
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