10 Facts about Arabic language

1) It is the language of the Holy Koran.

2) Arabic is written from the right to the left.

3) Arabic is written in Naskh script throughout most of the Arabic world with the exception of Malta where it is written in the Latin script (which is the script you are currently reading this article in).

4) Belongs to the Semitic branch of languages, other Semitic language which is closest to Arabic is Hebrew.

5) Arabic is the 11th most spoken language in America.

6) Arabic has lent many words to other languages such as English, Persian, Turkish, Bosnian, Kazakh, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Malay and Hausa.

7) Much of Greek literature that was lost during the European conquests have survived because they were translated into Arabic by Arab scholars.

8) Many Arab scholars' names were Latinised during the Renaissance. Some popular names, for instance are, Avicenna who was Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā or Averroes who was ʾAbū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd.

9) Arabic has also borrowed words from many languages, including Hebrew, Greek, Persian and Syriac in early centuries, Turkish in medieval times and contemporary European languages in modern times, mostly from English and French.

10) Before Classical Sanskrit literature was widely translated in European languages, it was being exhaustively translated by Arab scholars. Some of the books mentioned in these works are only documented by reference but do not exist in Sanskrit any more.