Why Arabic

280 million people who speak Arabic, plus more than 1 billion Muslims on the planet that know sentences that would be written in one or two pages at least.


Arabic is spoken in several countries as a first language. 


More than 20 countries speak Arabic as a first language.

Member states of the Arab League

Algeria (Arabic: الجزائر‎ al-Ǧazāʾir)  Bahrain (Arabic: البحرين‎ al-Baḥrayn)  Comoros (Arabic: جزر القمر‎ Ǧuzur al-Qamar) (Comorian and French are the other two official languages)  Djibouti (Arabic: جيبوتي‎ Ǧībūtī )(French is the other official language)  Egypt (Arabic: مصر‎ Miṣr)  Iraq (Arabic: العراق‎ al-ʿIrāq) (Kurdish is the other official language (minority))  Jordan (Arabic: الأردن‎ al-ʾUrdun)  Kuwait (Arabic: الكويت‎ al-Kuwayt)  Lebanon (Arabic: لبنان‎ Lubnān)  Libya (Arabic: ليبيا‎ Lībyā)

•  Mauritania (Arabic: موريتانيا‎ Mūrītānyā)
•  Morocco (Arabic: المغرب‎ al-Maġrib)
•  Oman (Arabic: عمان‎ ʿUmān)
•  Palestinian Authority (Arabic: السلطة الفلسطينية‎ al-Sultah al-Filasṭīniyyah) (Full member of Arab League and recognized by the majority of the World's nation states, but not recognized by the U.N., Israel, or most Western states)
•  Qatar (Arabic: قطر‎ Qaṭar)
•  Saudi Arabia (Arabic: المملكة العربية السعودية‎ al-Mamlakah al-ʿArabiyyah as-Saʿūdiyyah)
•  Somalia (Arabic: الصومال‎ aṣ-Ṣūmāl)(Somali is the other official language)
•  Sudan (Arabic: السودان‎ as-Sūdān)(English is the other official language (minority))
•  Syria (Arabic: سوريا‎ Sūryā)
•  Tunisia (Arabic: تونس‎ Tūnis)
•  United Arab Emirates (Arabic: الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة‎ al-ʾImārāt al-ʿArabiyyah al-Muttaḥidah)
•  Yemen (Arabic: اليمن‎ al-Yaman)

source: Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world