OnLine: Learn to Speak Arabic. 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. Digitized Arabic materials. Qur'an and religious texts al-Qur'ān (Qu'ran)(from Persia, 1697 CE) al-Qur'ān (Qur'an)(from Persia, 1874 CE)