Arabic

Arabic - العربية

Arabic (الْعَرَبيّة (al-ʿarabiyyah) or simply عَرَبيْ (ʿarabī)) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. Classified as Central Semitic, it is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic, and has its roots in a Proto-Semitic common ancestor. Modern Arabic is classified as a macrolanguage with 27 sub-languages in ISO 639-3. These varieties are spoken throughout the Arab world, and Standard Arabic is widely studied and known throughout the Islamic world.

Modern Standard Arabic derives from Classical Arabic, the only surviving member of the Old North Arabian dialect group, attested epigraphically since the 6th century, which has been a literary language and the liturgical language of Islam since the 7th century.

Arabic has lent many words to other languages of the Islamic world, as Latin has contributed to most European languages. And in turn, it has also borrowed from those languages, as well as Persian and Sanskrit from early contacts with their affiliated regions. During the Middle Ages, Arabic was a major vehicle of culture, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy, with the result that many European languages have also borrowed numerous words from it.

This wikibook aims to teach Arabic, and we are always looking for contributors.

III	This is a Category III Language.

• Alphabet and Pronunciation - الهجائية والنطق
  
• Romanisation System - نظام الحورفة

Lessons الدروس

• The definite article
• Here and there - هنا وهنالك
• Available - موجود
• Existence - وجود
• There is هناك
• Describing - وصف
• Pointing
• Relations - علاقات
• Pointing and describing
• Pronouns - ضمائر
• Possessive Pronouns - ضمائر الملكية
• Possession relationship (to have)
• Review Exercises - تمارين المراجعة
• Appendix A: Common phrases - ملحق أ:العبارات المشتركة
• Appendix B: Common phrases - ملحق ب:العبارات المشتركة

Misc. إلخ

• Formal Arabic
• Progress report
• Wikibook proposed plan
• Vocabulary and Phrase Appendix
• Archived Lessons!
• Troubleshooting
• Links