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Name: Classical Arabic

Type: Dialect

Alternate Names: Arabic; Standard Arabic; Arabic (Modern Standard); Standard; Arabic, Standard; High Arabic; Al Fus-Ha; Al Arabiya; Quranic Arabic; Koranic Arabic; Qur'anic Arabic

Spoken in: Chad, Comoros, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Oman, Algeria, Israel, Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Tanzania, Eritrea, Somalia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Qatar, Djibouti, Egypt

Number of speakers: 206,000,000 L1 speakers of all Arabic varieties (Wiesenfeld 1999) (Ethnologue)

Code: arb

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Afro-Asiatic

Parent Subgroup: Arabic; Proto-Arabic (prar)

Child Subgroups: Maghrebine (magh) Arabian Peninsular (arbp) Mesopotamian (abme) Syro-Palestinian; Levantine (arsy) Egyptian (areg) Central Asian Arabic (caar)

Child Languages: Andalusian Arabic; Andalusi Arabic; 'Andalusī; Spanish Arabic (xaa) Arabic, Sudanese Spoken; Sudanese Arabic; Arabic; Khartoum Arabic; Sudanese (apd) Arabic, Chadian Spoken; Chadian; Chadian Arabic; Arabic (Abbéché Chad); Arabic (Borno Nigerian); Arabe Choa; Shuwa Arabic; Shua Arabic; Shua; Chowa; Chad Arabic; Suwa; L'arabe du Tchad; Choa; Chadic Arabic; Shuwa; Arabic (shu)

Child Dialect: Modern Standard Arabic; Modern Literary Arabic; High Arabic; Al-FusHa; al-Fusḥa; Al-Arabiyya (arb-mod)