Arabic

Arabic
A page of the Blue Quran (Corano blu), a medieval manuscript written in the Kufic script currently stored in Venice.
Language family	Semitic West Semitic Moabic Arabic
Official status
Official language in	Egypt Tripolitania Tunisia Algeria Morocco Tuat Hejaz Ha'il United Gulf States Asir Yemen Lahej Oman Mesopotamian League Waddai Bornu Todaga Dar Runga Nubia Gimbala Shamba
Recognised minority language in	Ottoman Sultanate Rumelia Persia Manden Somalia Kirignaga-Loloue East Africa

Arabic (اللغة العربية, al-luġa al-ḁrabía) is a Semitic language spoken across the Near East and northern & central Africa. Two registers of the language, the prestigious Literary Arabic (LA, الفصحى, al-fuṣħa) and several regional varieties known as dialects (العامية, al-ḁ́mía), coexist across predominately Arabic-speaking regions.