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Fascinating Facts

1. There are over 225 million Arabic speakers worldwide.
2. It has been a literary language for over 1500 years.
3. Spanish is the European language with the most borrowings from Arabic.
4. Because of the great variation between dialects, an Iraqi may find it very difficult to understand a Moroccan, for example.
5. Algebra, alchemy and algorithm are all words of Arabic origin.