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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Fasih,Modern Literary Arabic,High Arabic,Al Fus-ha,Al Arabiya,Arabic, Standard
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
Standard Arabic (اللغة العربية الفصحى al-luġatu l-ʿarabīyatu l-fuṣḥā "the most eloquent Arabic language") or Literary Arabic is the standard and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in formal speech. It is part of the Arabic macrolanguage.
Most western scholars distinguish two common (al-)fuṣ-ḥā (الفصحى) varieties: the Classical Arabic (CA) (اللغة العربية التراثية) of the Qur'an and early Islamic (7th to 9th centuries) literature, and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) (اللغة العربية المعيارية الحديثة), the standard language in use today. The modern Standard language is based on the Classical language. Most Arabs consider the two varieties to be two registers of one language, although both registers can be described in Arabic as فصحى العصر fuṣḥā al-ʻaṣr (MSA) and فصحى التراث fuṣḥā at-turāth (CA).
Classical Arabic, also known as Qur'anic Arabic, is the language used in the Qur'an as well as in numerous literary texts from Umayyad and Abbasid times (7th to 9th centuries).
Classical Arabic is often believed to be the parent language of all the spoken varieties of Arabic, but recent scholarship, such as Clive Holes' (2004), questions this view, showing that other Old North Arabian<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1455599 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Arabic, Standard Language Speakers</h2>
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24.163129, 43.602101, Saudi Arabia
49.837982, 105.820313, Asia</googlemap>
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        <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_arb_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_arb_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_arb_ortho-3 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_arb_ortho-3 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_arb_ortho-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_arb_ortho-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>3</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_arb_ortho-4 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_arb_ortho-4 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_arb_undec-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_arb_undec-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/saudi_arabia Saudi Arabia]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/asia Asia]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>arb</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Afro-Asiatic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Semitic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Central Semitic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central South Central Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Arabic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Arabic, Standard Language]]</b>
 
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