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Nov 9, 2014

Introduction

Arabic is one of the most important languages in the world, with over 300 million people in several Arab countries use it as their mother tongue. It is also widely used language as the main language in a non-Arab country, the Central African Republic and Chad as a minority language in several other countries, such as Afghanistan, Israel (where both Arabic and Hebrew are the official languages), Iran and Nigeria. In 1974, Arabic was adopted as one of the six official languages of the United Nations, joining, English, French, Russian and Spanish in China. Over a billion Muslims in countries such as India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Tanzania study Arabic as a foreign language or two for operational and scientific use. In the United States, several Muslim and Arab communities employ Arabic daily interactions and for religious purposes.

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