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- Afroasiatic
- Semitic
- Standard Arabic
ISO 639-3 · arbarb
Afroasiatic family
Standard Arabic
العربية الفصحى
Standard Arabic is a language of the Semitic branch (Afroasiatic). Wikidata counts 335 m first-language speakers (2023). Wikidata describes it as “standardised/literary Arabic, covering both Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
arb- Glottocode
stan1318- Family
- Afroasiatic
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Wikipedia
- 6 language editions
335 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
—countries
1scripts
2levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Standard Arabic · العربية الفصحى |
|---|---|
| Also called | arb, Literary Arabic, High Arabic |
| L1 speakers | 335,000,000 (2023) |
| Written in | Arabic script |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Standard Arabic
The branches above Standard Arabic, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.