tbh s I doubt Arabic is coded in the abjadiyyeh or arabizi at all tbh, much like studying medicine, pretty sure knowing english would have to be a necessity to study such a course at a uni, whether you could or not is another question Answer from Unhappy_Repeat3480 on reddit.com
Reddit
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r/learn_arabic on Reddit: Do Arab programmers or coders actually write code in Al-abjadiyah or resort to transliterating Arabic words using English phonology upon them writing code?
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I know for languages like Japanese, they for the most part just transliterate it using Romaji (since most of the programs are developed and created by Westerners designed for English or perhaps other languages that use the latin alphabet), as support for non-latin based languages are a hit or miss since it will depend on the line of code or program, as for example -
It's not:
Const:専門学校データ = []
It is instead:
Const:senmongakkouData = []
In terms of Arabic, since most programming software (like Visual Studio, Vim, Spacemacs) are formatted L-R as English is the language for coding, how well is Arabic optimized for those platforms as it is a R-L language which mirrors English, the cursor is positioned L-R, even the strings of text are positioned within the margin of being default L-R.
Is it difficult to code in Arabic as most of the software used are designed for the English layout (L-R), so does that mean Arab coders just transliterate Arabic words using the latin alphabet, I mean is it even possible to translate variables in Arabic using Al-abjadiyah alone or do they still have to mix it with English alongside it?
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tbh s I doubt Arabic is coded in the abjadiyyeh or arabizi at all tbh, much like studying medicine, pretty sure knowing english would have to be a necessity to study such a course at a uni, whether you could or not is another question
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No, we usually use English. (I hope some of this changes one day... although I am not against using English especially if it is a lib that the whole world would use, and it is open-source) Some people tried to create Arabic programming languages, but you don't just need to create a language, you need a lot of libs to be built on top of it so people can feel it is a good option to use. That would require the existence of a community that is being pushed toward this from the environment itself, which doesn't happen right now because of the current nature of political leaders.
ISO 639-3
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arb | ISO 639-3
Standard Arabic is a member of the macrolanguage Arabic.
Why does ISO 639-3 have many language codes for Arabic but only one for English? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
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google text to speech - ar-XA language code: which Arabic variant is it? - Stack Overflow
Google in its text to speech documentation uses ar-XA code for Arabic. Does anybody know which local variant of Arabic this code stands for? Or is it Modern Standard Arabic...? There's no "XA&... More on stackoverflow.com
Russian and Arabic similarities?
Arabic is my native language (though my English is better at this point lol), and there are some similarities, but the specific grammar rules are completely different, and I get accidentally tripped up by trying to connect them sometimes. There are some similar words such as бензин, шапка, стакан, and душ off the top of my head, but I'm still a beginner so there's definitely more (not including all the words that are also the same in English/other European languages) Also I kind of use my "Arabic voice" when trying to speak Russian, and I definitely find that helpful. I find that л sounds more like ل than L for example, as well as being able to roll my r's, pronounce х properly, the concept of hard/soft sign, etc. More on reddit.com
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February 10, 2021Any words of sumerian origin?
Other related words like cannon, canal, and channel are all derived from the same root. The names Tigris and Euphrates are also derived from Sumerian, though it's thought they could come from a pre-Sumerian language. I was also under the impression the word abyss comes from the Sumerian abzu, but I just checked and it might be from Greek. There are actually a few words in English that derive from Ancient Egyptian, for example barque (a type of boat) and natrium, a type of naturally occuring salt (this is also the origin of NA as the chemical symbol for sodium). More on reddit.com
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September 16, 2019tbh s I doubt Arabic is coded in the abjadiyyeh or arabizi at all tbh, much like studying medicine, pretty sure knowing english would have to be a necessity to study such a course at a uni, whether you could or not is another question Answer from Unhappy_Repeat3480 on reddit.com
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Wikipedia
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Arabic - Wikipedia
2 days ago - The current preference is to avoid direct borrowings, preferring to either use loan translations (e.g., فرع farʻ 'branch', also used for the branch of a company or organization; جناح janāḥ 'wing', is also used for the wing of an airplane, building, air force, etc.), or to coin new words using forms within existing roots (استماتة istimātah 'apoptosis', using the root موت m/w/t 'death' put into the Xth form, or جامعة jāmiʻah 'university', based on جمع jamaʻa 'to gather, unite'; جمهورية jumhūriyyah 'republic', based on جمهور jumhūr 'multitude'). An e
Utah State Board of Education
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Language Codes AR – Arabic ZN (CN) – Chinese simplified VI – Vietnamese
Language Codes · AR – Arabic · ZN (CN) – Chinese simplified · VI – Vietnamese · ES (MX) – Spanish (Mexican) SO – Somali ·
Localizely
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Language code: ar - Arabic
ISO language code for Arabic (ar).
Wikipedia
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ISO 639-3 - Wikipedia
October 14, 2025 - Some of these macrolanguages had no individual language as defined by ISO 639-3 in the code set of ISO 639-2, e.g. ara (Generic Arabic).
LOC
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ISO 639-2 Language Code List - Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)
January 15, 2026 - Library of Congress >> Standards · ISO 639-1 Language Coding Agency Home - ISO 639-3 Language Coding Agency Home ISO 639-5 Language Coding Agency Home Other Standards Maintained by the Library - Library of Congress Home
Language Comparison
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Arabic Language Code
The Arabic language code consists of ISO 639 1, ISO 639 2, ISO 639 3, Glottocode and Linguasphere.
Andiamo!
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ISO language codes | Andiamo! The Language Professionals
April 25, 2024 - Andiamo's list of ISO language codes. Find the two-letter language code for each country by scrolling through the list or typing it into the seach bar.
SimpleLocalize
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Language: ar (Arabic) | SimpleLocalize
September 23, 2024 - In many resources, you may also find that Arabic is also known as العربية in local language. Arabic has ISO 639 codes like ar (ISO 639-1), ara (ISO 639-2) and ara (ISO 639-3).
Penn State
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Symbol Codes | Arabic Script Unicode Chart
September 16, 2016 - This page contains codes for basic Arabic script symbols, but does not include the Arabic Presentation blocks. Check the latest Unicode charts to see additional Arabic script codes. ... Because Arabic is a cursive script, letter forms change position depending on their position within a word and on other factors (such as which letters are adjacent.
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ISO639-3 is derived from The Ethnologue. The author of this work have a certain point of view on the definition of "language" (vs. "dialect") with a strong tendency to split languages into smaller units. Note that the authors of the Ethnologue have a open agenda that is different from doing science. Divide and Conquer.
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Are the languages spoken in various Arabian countries actually mutually intelligible? If no then it makes more sense to regard them as separate languages.
In China the government likes to officially categorize various Chinese languages as "dialects", but the reality is that the difference is really huge between some of them, e.g. comparing Mandarin and Cantonese is more like comparing Italian with Spanish than American English with British English. Most Mandarin speakers don't understand nor speak Cantonese at all. Therefore there are many language codes for various Chinese languages as well and it makes sense to me.
I wonder whether the situation is similar in Arabic: If you can't even understand some of the Northern African Arabic then how can you claim they're the "same language"? Some people might try to do so politically but linguistically it would be far-fetched. The situation is just fundamentally different from American vs. British English I suppose.
Ethnologue
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Arabic Language (ARA) – L1 & L2 Speakers, Status, Map, Endangered Level & Official Use | Ethnologue Free
Arabic is classified as a “macrolanguage” in the ISO 639 standard and is assigned to [ara] as its three-letter code. Macrolanguages were introduced into the standard in order to reconcile the fact that in some usage contexts the entity ...
Penn State
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Arabic - Symbol Codes - Sites at Penn State
April 3, 2017 - These ISO-639-3 codes from SIL codes are meant to match linguistic classification of the Colloquial Arabic forms and do not always match national boundaries. Omniglot Arabic Alphabet – General overview, including variant shapes · Aranic Alphabet.com – Shows isolated letters with sound files. Does not cover connected letters. Wikipedia Arabic alphabet – includes information on other languages using the Arabic script
Wikipedia
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List of ISO 639 language codes - Wikipedia
1 week ago - This table lists all two-letter codes (set 1), one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage, and some of the three-letter codes of the other sets, formerly parts 2 and 3.
Welocalize
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Language Codes (ISO 639-1) – Welocalize
January 6, 2026 - Language Code Afrikaans af Albanian sq Arabic (Algeria) ar-dz Arabic (Bahrain) ar-bh Arabic (Egypt) ar-eg Arabic (Iraq) ar-iq Arabic (Jordan) ar-jo Arabic (Kuwait) ar-kw Arabic ...
Science.co.il
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Language Codes - Sortable by code
Different languages share similar and overlapping character sets, alphabets and writing systems. Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that provides a unique code point for every character in every language. The column "Unicode" provides a link to the major character set for the language.
Lingoes
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Language Code Table
ISO Language Code Table
Ttmem
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TTMEM.com | ISO 639-1 Language Codes List
ISO 2 letter language codes reference for translators, localization professionals and CAT tool users. Find standardized language abbreviations used in translation memory systems, multilingual websites, localization workflows and translation software.