Modern Arabic is an official language of 27 states, the third most after English and French. It had 290 million native speakers in 2010. It uses the Arabic alphabet. The modern written Arabic is derived from the language of Quran. The Arabic alphabet is an abjad script written from right-to-left although the spoken varieties are sometimes written in ASCII Latin from left-to-right with no standardized forms.

Arabic has a very difficult writing system, many different dialects that make it hard to master it completely, and it's also extremely difficult to pronounce.