Arabic translations for your company

The Arabic language belongs to the Southwest Semitic languages and the Afroasiatic language family. It is used as a first language by some 250 million people worldwide and as a second language by around another 50 million. Accordingly, it is considered one of the major world languages.

Classical Arabic is the language of the Koran – it spread from the Arabian Peninsula to Central Asia, North Africa and Spain and serves as the religious and scholarly written language in all Islamic countries. In addition to a large number of sub-groups, five major dialect groups are differentiated as valid colloquial languages for all social areas and classes: Peninsular Arabic, Iraqi, Syriac-Palestinian, Egyptian-Sudanese and Maghrebi Arabic. Modern standard or written Arabic has developed from Middle Arabic and is used transnationally by Arabic-speaking mass media such as the press, television, radio and film. Arabic contains countless, mainly scientific, medical and technical loanwords from French and English, which gained greater acceptance in the language, particularly in the 20th century.

Spoken Arabic is marked by guttural sounds and has a distinctly consonantal character; the grammar is complex and facilitates rich linguistic expression. The Arabic alphabet is made up of 28 consonants that are combined from 18 characters. Vowels are differentiated by placing special characters above or below the consonants (diacritical marks). The Arabic script has evolved from Aramaic and is written from right to left.