Arabic is written from right to left, the same as Hebrew.
The Koran sold on Amazon, showing that the spine is on the right, because the writing goes from right to left.
I remember when I lived in Singapore at a dinner party held by a French Muslim women, an American guest exclaimed in surprise on seeing that Arabic books and pages and writing went from right to left.
"Well, I never knew. Arabic is written right to left, Just like Hebrew!" she exclaimed.
Her French friend from the book group was equally surprised and gasped, "You mean Hebrew writing goes right to left, like Arabic? I never knew that!"
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Learning languages is full of delightful surprises, and expansion of one's knowledge of the world, from historical times to the modern day..
Here are some similar words, easy for you to recognize, learn, and remember.
Arabic & Hebrew
Two languages for the price of one
English - Arabic - Hebrew
day - Araabic yam - Hebrew yom as in Yom Kippur the day (of) Atonement, which is a fasting day\
friend - Arabic sadiq
night - -Arabic laylah - Hebrew layla pronounced lie-la, laylah tov is good ight, literally night good with the adjective second
no - la - lo
A few words
Arabic is an official language of these countries:
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Comoros
- Chad
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Gaza and The West Bank
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Somaliland
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
It is also a national language of:
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