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العربية ''''
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/alˌʕaraˈbijja/
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'''al-‘Arabīyyah''' in written Arabic
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Algeria , Bahrain , Egypt , Iraq , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Libya , Mauritania , Morocco , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Somalia , Sudan , Syria , Tunisia , United Arab Emirates , Palestine (West Bank And Gaza) , Western Sahara ( SADR ), Yemen by a majority, and in many other countries, such as Israel , as a Minority Language it is also the the Liturgical Language of Islam
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Arab World
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206 million ( Ethnologue , native speakers of all dialects 1998 est) 286 million (population of Arab countries, CIA World Factbook 2004 est), excluding Arab minorities in other countries and bilingual speakers
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5 (by first language) slightly before Portuguese and Bengali
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Afro-Asiatic
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Semitic
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West Semitic
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Central Semitic
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Arabic Alphabet
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Algeria , Bahrain , Comoros , Chad , Djibouti , Egypt , Eritrea , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Libya , Mauritania , Morocco , Oman , Palestine , Qatar , Western Sahara ( SADR ), Saudi Arabia , Somalia , Sudan , Syria , Tunisia , United Arab Emirates , Yemen
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