Information on the Arabic language and its pronunciation

The Arabic language is part of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. Within this group it is counted a Semitic language.
Arabic is the sole official language – or one of the official languages in the following countries:
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi-Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirate, Western Sahara and Yemen.

The Arabic language comes in a lot of different varieties and dialects.
You can divide them into four groups:

1. Maghrebi Arabic (found in Northern Africa)
   You will encounter it's varieties in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Libya.
2. Egyptian Arabic and the local variety in Sudan form another sub-group.
3. The term Gulf Arabic collects varieties of Arabic in the region around the Persian Gulf:
   Part of this group are varieties from Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
4. Eastern Arabic Varieties
   We refer to Eastern Arab when we speak of dialects spoken in Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.