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.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Arabic Native اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ |
| Family | Semitic |
| Text direction | Right-to-Left |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | Egyptian ArabicLevantine ArabicGulf ArabicMaghrebi ArabicMesopotamian ArabicSudanese ArabicYemeni ArabicNajdi ArabicHejazi ArabicHassaniya Arabic |
| Related languages | HebrewAramaicAmharicTigrinyaMaltese |
| Key facts | Most widely spoken member of the Semitic language familyWritten in a cursive abjad that runs right-to-leftClassical Arabic of the Qur’an has changed little since the 7th centuryMany global scientific and mathematical terms (e.g., algebra, algorithm) trace back to ArabicFeatures emphatic consonants and a rich root-and-pattern morphology. |
| Sample phrase | مرحبا، كيف حالك؟ |
| Character encodings | |
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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?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI 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