Officially, there is no “p” letter in Levantine Arabic and most other Arabic dialects. As a result, when it comes to transliterating words that contain a “p”-sound from other languages, it is ...

In Lebanon, an Arabic language festival encourages children to learn the Arabic alphabet Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read. The ...

Twenty-six years ago, two brothers decided their native language needed a new alphabet. The scripts they’d been using to read and write their native Fulani, an African language spoken by at least 40 ...

Most people speak the colloquial version, but rely on the classical for clarification Dubai: Arabic, the official language of the UAE, is also the language of the Quran. It is categorised into three ...