Language code: ar

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ar

Technical information about ar language code (Arabic) is available below.

ISO code

ar

Language

Official

Arabic

Native

اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ

Scripts
Text direction

Right-to-Left

Plural rules

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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

Speakers

25M

*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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