modern foreign languages
type: Concept
narrower: Arabic language

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: Arabic language

Arabic language
type: Concept
definition: Arabic (al-'arabiyya, lisān al-'Arab—“the Arab tongue;” al-fusha, “purer Arabic”) is one of the world's leading languages, with an estimated 221 million speakers, and its use as the canonical language of Islam is often credited with helping to give unity to global Muslim culture.Among spoken languages, it ranks fifth after Mandarin Chinese, English, Spanish, and Hindi. It is the official language of 21 modern countries in North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Chad, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and Sudan), the Arabian Peninsula (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen), the Levant (Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria,), and the Horn of Africa (Djibouti and Somalia). [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Arabic]
broader: modern foreign languages
broader: concepts in global religion

concepts in global religion
type: Concept
narrower: Arabic language