Language code: ar
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ar
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The table below provides technical details for the Arabic language, designated by the ar code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Arabic belongs to the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, specifically the Semitic subgroup. It is the official language in more than 20 countries and territories. It is written using the Arabic alphabet. It is estimated that there are more than 300 million speakers of all varieties worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Arabic speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
ar-001 – Arabic (World)
ar-AE – Arabic (United Arab Emirates)
ar-BH – Arabic (Bahrain)
ar-DJ – Arabic (Djibouti)
ar-DZ – Arabic (Algeria)
ar-EG – Arabic (Egypt)
ar-EH – Arabic (Western Sahara)
ar-ER – Arabic (Eritrea)
ar-IL – Arabic (Israel)
ar-IQ – Arabic (Iraq)
ar-JO – Arabic (Jordan)
ar-KM – Arabic (Comoros)
ar-KW – Arabic (Kuwait)
ar-LB – Arabic (Lebanon)
ar-LY – Arabic (Libya)
ar-MA – Arabic (Morocco)
ar-MR – Arabic (Mauritania)
ar-OM – Arabic (Oman)
ar-PS – Arabic (Palestine)
ar-QA – Arabic (Qatar)
ar-SA – Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
ar-SD – Arabic (Sudan)
ar-SO – Arabic (Somalia)
ar-SS – Arabic (South Sudan)
ar-SY – Arabic (Syria)
ar-TD – Arabic (Chad)
ar-TN – Arabic (Tunisia)
ar-YE – Arabic (Yemen)
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- What is Localizely?
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- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
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- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- FAQ
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ