# Modern Standard Arabic

> the standardized and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in most formal speech

**Wikidata**: [Q56467](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56467)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/modern-standard-arabic


## References

1. [ScriptSource - Egypt](https://scriptsource.org/country/EG)
2. [ScriptSource - Lebanon](https://scriptsource.org/country/LB)
3. Ethnologue
4. [Source](https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/arb)
5. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
6. [Source](https://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_ams)
7. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
8. [Source](https://www.ethnologue.com/language/arb)
9. [Source](https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/release-68-2/icu4c/source/data/lang/en.txt#L67)
10. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)