WHAT ARE SOME KEY FACTS ABOUT arabic?

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• Arabic is the primary language of 25+ countries in the Middle East and North Africa. 
• The spoken Arabic dialect (ammiya) is different from country to country and it is often only a spoken dialect.
• There is a common dialect which is used, written, and understood by the majority of Arabic speakers. This is called the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) which is based on Classical Arabic (fusha). MSA is the language used in laws, legal documents, national courts, business, and most news media. 
• MSA Arabic is written from right to left. 
• Numbers are written from left to right. 
• When written in a word, letters need to be joined to form a word and most letters are written differently depending on their position in a word. 
• Capitalisation of letters in Arabic is not possible.