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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. 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 ...

  4. Varieties of Arabic - Wikipedia

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    In Morocco, Algeria and other parts of North Africa they are consistently /t, d/. They remain /θ/ and /ð/ in most of the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Tunisia, parts of Yemen, rural Palestinian, Eastern Libyan, and some rural Algerian dialects. In Arabic-speaking towns of Eastern Turkey (Urfa, Siirt and Mardin), they respectively become /f, v/.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Languages of Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    In the Arab world, most films and songs are in vernacular Arabic. [36] Egypt was the most influential center of Arab media productions (movies, drama, TV series) during the 20th century, [37] but Levantine is now competing with Egyptian. [38] As of 2013, about 40% of all music production in the Arab world was in Lebanese. [37]

  8. Arabs - Wikipedia

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    The most popular Arab account holds that the word Arab came from an eponymous father named Ya'rub, who was supposedly the first to speak Arabic. Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani had another view; he states that Arabs were called gharab ('westerners') by Mesopotamians because Bedouins originally resided to the west of Mesopotamia; the term was ...

  9. Arab culture - Wikipedia

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    The number of Arab internet users interested in political affairs does not exceed a few thousands, mainly represented by internet activists and bloggers, out of 58 million internet users in the Arab world. As few as they are, they have succeeded in shedding some light on the corruption and repression of the Arab governments and dictatorships. [57]