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  2. Indonesian Arabic - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the Klego subdistrict in Pekalongan, the Arab people there speak Arabic with influences from Javanese grammar and a broader vocabulary. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] There are two varieties of Arabic that are usually used in Indonesia, namely Amiyah or colloquial Arabic, especially by Arab descendants in Indonesia in daily communication among ...

  3. Arabic numerals - Wikipedia

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    The oldest specimens of the written numerals available are from Egypt and date to 873–874 AD. They show three forms of the numeral "2" and two forms of the numeral "3", and these variations indicate the divergence between what later became known as the Eastern Arabic numerals and the Western Arabic numerals. [7]

  4. List of countries and territories where Arabic is an official ...

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    Along with the religion of Islam, the Arabic language, Arabic number system and Arab customs spread throughout the entire Arab caliphate. The caliphs of the Arab dynasty established the first schools inside the empire which taught Arabic language and Islamic studies for all pupils in all areas within the caliphate. The result was (in those ...

  5. Arab Indonesians - Wikipedia

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    In 1900, total number of Arab population 27,399, 44,902 in 1920, and 71,335 in 1930. [20] Census data shows 87,066 people in 2000, and 87,227 people in 2005, who identified themselves as being of Arab ethnicity, representing 0.040% of the population. [21] The number of Indonesians with partial Arab ancestry, who do not identify as Arab, is ...

  6. List of multilingual countries and regions - Wikipedia

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    Most of the population can speak, read and write in English. In addition to English, many Singaporeans can speak their respective ethnic language like Mandarin Chinese fairly well, as it is a compulsory subject in school. In Chinese communities, the older generation usually speak their own language like Hakka and Hokkien besides Mandarin and/or ...

  7. List of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

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    Quechua, Aymara and another native languages are official wherever they predominate Philippines: 2 Filipino; English; Aklanon (in the Visayas) Bikol (in Luzon) Cebuano (in the Visayas and Mindanao) Chavacano (in Mindanao) Hiligaynon (in the Visayas) Ibanag (in Luzon) Ilocano (in Luzon, official in La Union [72]) Ivatan (in Luzon) Kapampangan ...

  8. Arabic - Wikipedia

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    They have lost the mood distinctions other than imperative, but many have since gained new moods through the use of prefixes (most often /bi-/ for indicative vs. unmarked subjunctive). They have also mostly lost the indefinite "nunation" and the internal passive. The following is an example of a regular verb paradigm in Egyptian Arabic.

  9. Central Asian Arabic - Wikipedia

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    These Arabs nowadays speak no Arabic, having adapted to Dari and Uzbek. [ 6 ] With the establishment of the Soviet rule in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, Arab communities faced major linguistic and identity changes having had to abandon nomadic lifestyles and gradually mixing with Uzbeks , Tajiks and Turkmen .