Arabic is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic.

Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam, and many Muslims are fluent in Arabic to read the Qur’an as it was originally written.

Arabic has influenced many other languages, most notably Spanish, as the Moors once ruled the Iberian Peninsula.

Arabic is the fifth most spoken language in the world.

Arabic has 11 different words for love.

Arabic has hundreds of words for camels.

Capital letters do not exist in Arabic and the script is entirely cursive.

Some English words borrowed from Arabic include sugar, sofa, lemon, coffee, alcohol, and algebra.

There is no form of “to be” in Arabic. For example, instead of saying “I am a teacher,” one would simply say “I teacher.”

It usually takes an English speaker about 2,200 hours of study to become fluent in Arabic.

The Qur’an preserved much of what we know about Classical Arabic.

The word qalb means “heart,” but if mispronounced as kalb, it means “dog.”

Arabic script is written from right to left, while numbers are written left to right.

Double negatives do not exist in Arabic in the same way as they are in English—you simply sound more negative if you use them.

There’s also an expression that translates to “May God give you health,” which can sometimes be used sarcastically, similar to saying “Go away, you’re done!”