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Although the official language of Egypt is Modern Standard Arabic, its people speak Egyptian Arabic. Written in the Arabic alphabet, the language is spoken by over 77 million people throughout the world, though mostly concentrated in Egypt.

Although the official language of Egypt is Modern Standard Arabic, its people speak Egyptian Arabic. Written in the Arabic alphabet, the language is spoken by over 77 million people throughout the world, though mostly concentrated in Egypt.

In Morocco, the most spoken language in daily life is Moroccan Darija or Moroccan Arabic, which is spoken by some 19 million people in the country. Modern Standard Arabic is used for official communications by the government and other public bodies but is not spoken socially. Moroccan Darija has a strong presence on television, social media, entertainment, cinema, and commercial advertising.

Tunisia is a North African country bordering the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert and has an estimated 11.4 million inhabitants. In Tunisia, a set of dialects of Maghrebi Arabic are spoken by eleven million speakers and are referred to as Tounsi, Tunisian or Derja that means “everyday language.” This distinguishes the languages from the official Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).

Out of the estimated forty million people who live in Algeria (2016), around 75% to 80% speak Algerian Arabic, or Algerian (known as Darja or Dziria) as their first language, and another 20% speak it as a second language. Algerian is a language derived from a variety of Arabic languages spoken in northern Algeria.

As in many other Arabic countries, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is taught alongside the local dialects in Kuwait. Modern Standard Arabic is the official language of Kuwait, but Kuwaiti Arabic is the urban spoken vernacular used in everyday life in the country. There are differences between the dialects spoken in urban areas and those spoken in rural areas.

The current population of the Sultanate of Oman is estimated to be 4,720,483. The country is on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Oman is at the mouth of the Persian Gulf and shares land borders with the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. It shares marine borders with Iran and Pakistan. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the southeast and the Gulf of Oman on the northeast.

The official language in Bahrain, similar to most Arabic-speaking countries, is Literary Arabic. This is a mixture of Classic Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic mixed with local dialects.

The population of Qatar is 2.6 million, and there has been a great influx of English along with globalization and the expatriates who live there.

Arabic is the official language of Qatar, and Qatari Arabic is the country’s local dialect. Gulf Arabic or Khaliji is also spoken in Qatar, as well as Modern Standard Arabic, which is the official language of the government and of printed materials. Gulf Arabic is also spoken in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Have you always wanted to learn how to speak the Libyan Arabic dialect but simply didn’t have the time?
Well if so, then, look no further. You will hold in your hands one of the most advanced and revolutionary methods that was ever designed for quickly becoming conversational in a language. In creating this time-saving program, master linguist Yatir Nitzany spent years examining the twenty-seven most common languages in the world and distilling from them the three hundred and fifty words that are most likely to be used in real conversations.

The official language of Yemen, for the estimated twenty-seven million people living there, is Modern Standard Arabic, but Yemeni Arabic, which is a cluster of varieties spoken in the country and in southwestern Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Djibouti, is unofficially used for daily communications. There are an estimated fifteen million people that use Yemeni Arabic as their primary language.

Sudanese Arabic is native to Sudan and some parts of Eritrea, with about 29.4 million native speakers. The number of speakers worldwide is estimated at 31,854,000. It is spoken in the Anseba Region, Gash-Barka Region, and the Sudan.

The two official languages of the citizens of the State of Israel are Hebrew and Arabic. English is, however, used as a second language by the majority of the Israeli population. As Arabic is the second official language, it is used extensively in logos, road signs, instruction labels, etc., as well as in messages that are posted or published by the government and product labels. The use of Arabic increased after Israeli Supreme Court rulings in the 1990s that eased the rights of the Arab minority in Israel.