Why is Lebanon the only Arab country to text Arabic with Latin letters instead of just using al abjadiyah like everyone else?

Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

Ahhh, Arabic! The dazzling gem of the Arab world has been captivating linguists and language lovers for centuries. With today ...

The US State Department's decision to ditch the sans-serif Calibri and return to the serif Times New Roman for official ...

Instead of asking users to change the way they type, the keyboard mirrors the layout “Arabizi” users already know ...

The FA9LA isn't a typo or a catchy title. The 9 replaces an Arabic letter for a strong "s" sound, a trend from Arabizi, the ...

Have you ever wondered how some languages work without an alphabet? While most of us read using letters like A to Z, Chinese and Japanese follow a completely different system. Instead of spelling ...

Mandarin Chinese and Japanese don't rely on A-Z style alphabets. Chinese uses characters tied to meaning while Japanese blends characters and syllabaries. Together they show how writing can evolve far ...

Abstract: The pronunciation of the Arabic language is required all articulatory phonetics organs to formulate the correct sounds of a word. It is challenging for non-native Arabic speakers to learn to ...

The oldest known Arabic writing found in Saudi Arabia, from ca. 470 AD belong to a Christian context and predates the advent of Islam with 150 years. In December 2015, researchers from a French-Saudi ...