The codified supra-regional standard used across the Arab world in education, media, literature, and formal speech. Derived from Classical Arabic, it has no native speakers and no single regional home — it is acquired as a formal register layered above the spoken vernaculars. Cairo, as the historical center of Arabic publishing, broadcasting, and scholarship, serves as its conventional locus.
Maghrebská arabčina Maroka, s ťažkým berberským substrátom a podstatnými francúzskymi a španielskymi prevzatiami. Dostatočne odlišná od mašreqskej arabčiny na to, aby fungovala ako samostatný každodenný jazyk.