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Many Western words entered Arabic through Ottoman Turkish as Turkish was the main language for transmitting Western ideas into the Arab world. There are about 3,000 Turkish borrowings in Syrian Arabic, mostly in administration and government, army and war, crafts and tools, house and household, dress, and food and dishes.
Numbers larger than 3 do not have gender but may have two forms, one used before nouns and one used independently. [29] In particular, numbers between 3 and 10 lose their final vowel before a noun. [27] Numbers from 3 to 10 are followed by plural nouns. Numbers from 11 to 99 are followed by a singular. [29] [30] [27]
Arabic is the third most widespread official language after English and French, [16] one of six official languages of the United Nations, [17] and the liturgical language of Islam. [18] Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the world and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, governments and the media. [18]
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Arabic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Arabic Sun consonants in Black and Moon consonants in White The Maltese moon consonants highlighted in white, the sun consonants in black, and the vowels in gray. In Arabic and Maltese, all consonants are classified into two distinct groups known as sun letters (Arabic: حروف شمسية ḥurūf shamsiyyah, Maltese: konsonanti xemxin) and moon letters (Arabic: حروف قمرية ...
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When a shaddah is used on a consonant which also takes a fatḥah /a/, the fatḥah is written above the shaddah.If the consonant takes a kasrah /i/, it is written between the consonant and the shaddah instead of its usual place below the consonant, however this last case is an exclusively Arabic language practice, not in other languages that use the Arabic script.
The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [b] of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the modern Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case.