A Semitic language spoken primarily throughout the Arab world - North Africa and the Middle East - and as the liturgical language of the Islam.
1He taught courses in Modern Standard Arabic, comparative literature, German Studies and philosophy.
2He was speaking Standard Arabic with a Pashtun accent.
3Standard Arabic was used (with no specific dialect inclusion) to allow greater generalisability across Arabic speaking countries.
4It sounds more guttural than standard Arabic, contains fewer vowel sounds and appears to be spoken twice as quickly.