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Arabic Syntax - BYU Department of Linguistics and English Language

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About <strong>Arabic</strong><br />

• 206,000,000 L1 speakers <strong>of</strong> all <strong>Arabic</strong> varieties (ethnologue)<br />

• We will discuss Modern St<strong>and</strong>ard <strong>Arabic</strong> (Fusah)<br />

• Some places that it's spoken: Middle East, North Africa. Also in Algeria, Bahrain,<br />

Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,<br />

Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian West Bank <strong>and</strong> Gaza, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan,<br />

Syria, Tanzania, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. (ethnologue)<br />

• Script reads right to left

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