Arabiya - Arabiya

…It belongs to the South Semitic branch of the Semitic language family along with Ethiopian, and is divided into North and South Arabian in a broad sense, but usually refers to only the former. In Arabic, it is al-'Arabiya. It is currently the official language in Syria, Iraq, and other Southwest Asian countries, as well as in North African countries such as Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, and is also spoken in other parts of North Africa, Uzbekistan in Central Asia, and Malta in the Mediterranean, with a total population estimated at more than 100 million.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…セム語族中，エチオピア語と共に南セム語派に属し，広義には北アラビア語と南アラビア語に分かれるが，普通は前者のみを指す。アラビア語ではアラビーヤal‐‘Arabīya。現在，シリア，イラク以南の西南アジア諸国はもちろん，エジプト，スーダン，リビア，チュニジア，アルジェリア，モロッコ等の北アフリカ諸国で公用語と定められ，その他の北アフリカ各地，中央アジアのウズベクや地中海のマルタ島でも話されており，総人口は1億以上と推定される。…

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