Arabic
العربية الفصحى
Arabic is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Sudan, by about 335 million people.
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Modern Standard Arabic is for writing and formal speech; everyday life runs on regional varieties so different that Moroccan and Iraqi Arabic can be hard to follow for each other — a situation linguists call diglossia.
Written down
يولد جميع الناس أحرارًا متساوين في الكرامة والحقوق. وقد وهبوا عقلاً وضميرًا وعليهم أن يعامل بعضهم بعضًا بروح الإخاء.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Arabic
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | أُمّ | ʔumm |
| father | أَب | ʔab |
| child | وَلَد | walad |
| man | رَجُل | rajul |
| woman | اِمْرَأَة | imraʔa |
| person | شَخْص | šaḵṣ |
| name | اِسْم | ism |
| friend | صَدِيق | ṣadīq |
| eye | عَيْن | ʕayn |
| ear | أُذُن | ʔuḏun |
| nose | أَنْف | ʔanf |
| tooth | سِنّ | sinn |
| tongue | لِسَان | lisān |
| hand | يَد | yad |
| heart | قَلْب | qalb |
| head | رَأْس | raʔs |
| blood | دَم | dam |
| bone | عَظْم | ʕaẓm |
| skin | جِلْد | jild |
| knee | رُكْبَة | rukba |
| breast | ثَدْي | ṯady |
| liver | كَبِد | kabid |
| water | مَاء | māʔ |
| fire | نَار | nār |
| sun | شَمْس | šams |
| moon | قَمَر | qamar |
| star | نَجْم | najm |
| sky | سَمَاء | samāʔ |
| rain | مَطَر | maṭar |
| snow | ثَلْج | ṯalj |
Most similar languages
Grammar
- HassaniyyaAfro-Asiatic89% alike
- Baharna ArabicAfro-Asiatic88% alike
- Cypriot ArabicAfro-Asiatic88% alike
- Gulf ArabicAfro-Asiatic86% alike
- Libyan ArabicAfro-Asiatic86% alike
- HebrewAfro-Asiatic85% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.