Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native ...

IT is considered quite normal for languages to borrow words from other languages. When a language takes words from other languages, these “new arrivals” are usually called borrowings or loan words.

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Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native speakers and 200 million to 250 million non-native speakers. Modern Standard ...