2008, Abdallah Nacereddine,To Be Oneself: The Tragicomedy of an Unfinished Life History,→ISBN, page342:
One day my UN students asked me, "Which is theArabic country where the best Arabic is spoken?" I quickly replied, "Bosnia." They exclaimed, "But Bosnia is not anArab country!"
2012, Deborah Youdell, “Intelligibility, agency and the raced–nationed–religioned subjects of education”, inIntersectionality and "Race" in Education,→ISBN, page202:
White chalk on the fascia board above theArabic-food stall reads "Lebanon" and "Lebs rule".
The adjectiveArabic is commonly used in reference to language, and in traditional phrases such asArabic numeral orgum arabic. Its use is controversial and often deprecated in reference to people or countries, where the adjectiveArab is preferred.
A majorSemitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula, and now spoken natively (in various spoken dialects, all sharing a single highly conservative standardized literary form) throughout large sections of theMiddle East and North Africa.
We’d gone toArabic school as children and taken lessons in the summer holidays, and I still read the news inArabic, but it wasn’t like I practised reciting the written language any more, with its complex rhythms and grammatical structures.
2004 April 22, Peter T. Daniels, “Taiwanese and their language”, insoc.culture.china[1] (Usenet):
Classic Arabic didn't "turn into" the various Arabic vernaculars. There is disagreement over whether the range of spokenArabics all have a single ancestor (seems unlikely), but Classical Arabic is a somewhat artificial creation based on at least two dialects.
