WALS Online - Language Arabic (Modern Standard)

Language Arabic (Modern Standard)

WALS code: ams

Fid	Value	Feature	Reference	Area

Glottocode: stan1318
ISO 639-3: arb

Coordinates WGS84

25°N, 42°E
25.00, 42.00

Spoken in:

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

Alternative names

Ethnologue:	Arabic, Standard
Other:	Arabic (Modern Literary)
Other:	Modern Literary Arabic

Sources

Cowan 1958: An Introduction to Modern Literary Arabic
Haywood and Nahmad 1965: A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language
Nasr 1967: The structure of Arabic: from sound to sentence