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The answer depends on several factors. What countries are included in S.W. Asia? What minimum percentage of speakers counts as a "main language"? (80%? 67%? 50%?) Must dialects be mutually intelligible to be called one language? Can there only be one main language?

Assuming you answer the above questions in a certain way, you could say that Arabic is the main language of S.W. Asia. Otherwise, there is no answer, given the diversity of languages in this region (and most regions this size).

It's hard to select one language as the main language of an area so large, given that there are about 6,909 living languages in the world today, to our best knowledge. In Asia, there are about 2,322 living languages. In selecting Arabic, remember that there are multiple "dialects" of Arabic that vary in degree of (mutual) intelligibility, or lack thereof.

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