Classification of Arabic languages

The Arabic language family is divided into several categories which are: Old Arabic, the literary varieties, and the modern vernaculars.

This article is about the historical language group. For the modern general language (macrolanguage), see Arabic. For the separate South Semitic language group, see Modern South Arabian languages.
North Arabian
South Central Semitic
Arabic
Geographic
distribution		North Africa, Middle East, Malta
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
Proto-languageProto-Arabic
Glottologarab1394

The genealogical position of Arabic within the group of the Semitic languages has long been a problem.

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