About the Arabic Language

    إنا جعلناه قرآنا عربيا لعلكم تعقلون

We have indeed made the Quran in Arabic, so you understand it (Surah Az Zukhruf: 3) Arabic (al-lughah اللغة العربية al-'Arabīyyah, or in summary عربي 'Arabi) is one of Central Semitic language, which included in the Semitic language family and are related to Hebrew and Aramaic languages ​​Neo. Arabic language has more speakers than other languages ​​in the Semitic language family. He is spoken by more than 280 million people as first language, which mostly live in the Middle East and North Africa. This language is the official language of 25 countries, and is the language of worship in Islam because it is a language used by the Qur'an. Based on geographical distribution, conversational Arabic language has many variations (dialects), some dialects can not even understand each other. Modern Arabic is classified as a makrobahasa with 27 sub-languages ​​in ISO 639-3. Standard Arabic (sometimes called Arabic Literature) is widely taught in schools and universities, as well as used in the workplace, government and mass media.
Standard Arabic derived from Classical Arabic, the only member of the Old North Arabian language family which is still used, as seen in the inscriptions of pre-Islamic Arab heritage that comes from the 4th century Classical Arabic has also been a literary language and the language more or less Islamic worship since the 6th century. Arabic alphabet is written from right to left.
Arabic has given a lot of vocabulary to the other languages ​​of the Islamic world, just as the role of Latin to most European languages. During the Middle Ages Arabic is also the main instrument of culture, particularly in science, mathematics adan philosophy, which led to many European languages ​​share much vocabulary borrowed from Arabic.