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'''Arabic''' ({{lang|ar|العربية}} is spoken by more than 230 million<ref name=Proch /> people as a [[first language]], most of whom live in the [[Middle East]] and [[North Africa]]. [[Literary Arabic]] is the official language of 26 states, and the liturgical language of Islam since it is the language of the [[Qur'an]], the [[Islam]]ic Holy Book. Arabic has many different, geographically distributed [[spoken language|spoken]] varieties, some of which are [[mutual intelligibility|mutually unintelligible]].<ref>"Arabic language." ''Encyclopaedia Britannica''. 2009. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Retrieved on 29 July 2009.</ref> Modern Standard Arabic (also called ''Literary Arabic'') is widely taught in schools, universities, and used in workplaces, government and the media.

Colloquial Arabic "amayaa" as the regional Arabic varieties are known locally, have their own unique words, expressions and grammars that covers a diverse geographical area from West Afrika to Oman. Arabic varieties are divided into Maghrebi, Eastern and Gulf Arabic.

*[[Maghrebi Arabic]] or North African Arabic
::[[Moroccan]]
::[[Algerian]]
::[[Libya]]
::[[Tunisia]]
::[[Egyptian]]
::[[Saidi Arabic]]
::[[Sudan]]
::[[Juba Arabic]]
::[[Chad]]
::[[Mauritania]]

*[[Gulf Arabic]]
::[[Omani]]
::[[Bahraini]]
::[[Qatari]]
::[[Kuwaiti]]

*::[[Peninsular Arabic]]
::[[Yemeni]]
::[[Saudi]] and its dialects
::[[Hejazi]]
::[[Naidji]]
::[[Emirati]]

*::[[Levantine Arabic]]
::[[Syrian]]
::[[Lebanese]]
::[[Palestinian]]
::[[Jordanian]]

Mesopotamian Arabic
::[[Iraqi]]
::[[Khuzestani Arabic|Iran]]

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