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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native ...

Hundreds of Arabic words are used in the English language today, and there are surprising stories behind how some of them made it. For World Arabic Language Day, Al Jazeera’s Alma Milisic explains ...

IT is considered quite normal for languages to borrow words from other languages. When a language takes words from other languages, these “new arrivals” are usually called borrowings or loan words.

The UAE is a true melting pot of cultures, with over 200 nationalities calling the country home. Thousands of tourists will descend in the UAE over the next few months. English is widely spoken here ...