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Meanings of standard arabic in English

A Semitic language spoken primarily throughout the Arab world - North Africa and the Middle East - and as the liturgical language of the Islam.

        Usage of standard arabic in English
        1
        He taught courses in Modern Standard Arabic, comparative literature, German Studies and philosophy.
        Ebony
        2
        He was speaking Standard Arabic with a Pashtun accent.
        The good son: a novel
        3
        Standard Arabic was used (with no specific dialect inclusion) to allow greater generalisability across Arabic speaking countries.
        Pubmed
        4
        It sounds more guttural than standard Arabic, contains fewer vowel sounds and appears to be spoken twice as quickly.
        Reuters