Arabic Translation
Arabic is the official language of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Arabic language is spoken by more than 246 million people worldwide. Arabic was made the sixth official language of the United Nations in 1974. Arabic is considered the sixth most spoken language in the world. Arabic language is also spoken in many other countries including Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gaza Strip, Iran, Israel, Mauritania, Somalia, Turkey, USA, West Bank and Western Sahara.
The Arabic alphabet is believed to have evolved from that of an ancient people known as the Nabateans and belongs to Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) family of language. The present alphabet of twenty-eight letters consists basically of consonants, the vowel signs being indicated by marks above or below the letters. While these marks are generally omitted, they do appear in elementary school books and in all editions of the Koran. Like the other Semitic languages, Arabic is written from right to left.The script is also employed in many other languages, such as Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Sindhi.
The southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula has distinct dialect of Arabic known as South Arabic and differ so greatly from the Arabic of the north that South Arabic is often considered a separate language