1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Genus: Semitic

Arabic (Modern Standard)

WALS coordinates: 25° N, 42° E

spoken in Kuwait, Somalia, Syria, Oman, Qatar, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Comoros Islands, Jordan, Lebanon, Eritrea, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, Algeria, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, Israel

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
      Other:
      • Arabic (Modern Literary),
      • Modern Literary Arabic
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References  
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Definite Articles Definite affix
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
      Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Comparative Constructions Locational