Swahili
The Swahili language developed through trade contacts between East Africans and Arab traders along the coast of East Africa, particularly in present-day Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique. Arabic influence is evident in Swahili vocabulary and writing system.
Arabic has around 280 million native speakers, and an extra 250 million non-native speakers.
Arabic did not replace the native languages of West Africans. While Arabic language and culture did spread through trade and Islamic influences in some regions, indigenous languages continue to be widely spoken across West Africa.
It depends on how you define "Arabic". If you are referring exclusively to Modern Standard Arabic (Fus-ha), the official Arabic language, there are probably fewer than 10 million native speakers. Most people who speak MSA have learnt it as a second language. If you define "Arabic" as any of the Arabic dialects (some of which are not mutually intelligible), then you have roughly 290-300 million native speakers of Arabic.
The main language spoken by Arabic people is Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), which is used in formal settings, literature, and media. In addition to MSA, Arabic people also speak various dialects of Arabic that differ from country to country and region to region.
" Arabic people" are Arabic speakers who are called Arabs. Arabic is the language they speak mainly.
Arabic
They may (since most Nuer speakers live in close physical proximity to Sudanese Arabic speakers), but Nuer is a distinct language from Arabic.
The Swahili language developed through trade contacts between East Africans and Arab traders along the coast of East Africa, particularly in present-day Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique. Arabic influence is evident in Swahili vocabulary and writing system.
Arabic has around 280 million native speakers, and an extra 250 million non-native speakers.
Arabic did not replace the native languages of West Africans. While Arabic language and culture did spread through trade and Islamic influences in some regions, indigenous languages continue to be widely spoken across West Africa.
Because Arabic is a very expressive language. Muslims add an aura of sanctity to it because it is the language of Quran, but that's not relevant to all speakers.
It depends on how you define "Arabic". If you are referring exclusively to Modern Standard Arabic (Fus-ha), the official Arabic language, there are probably fewer than 10 million native speakers. Most people who speak MSA have learnt it as a second language. If you define "Arabic" as any of the Arabic dialects (some of which are not mutually intelligible), then you have roughly 290-300 million native speakers of Arabic.
Arabic became the dominant language throughout the early Islamic Empires as they were founded by Arabic speakers.
Because Islam developed in Saudi Arabia, where the native language is Arabic. It's the same for non-Abrahamic religions too. The original language for Buddhism was Sanskrit because it developed in India.
If by "africans and Asian Arabs" you mean, Arabians, in North Africa and the Arabian peninsula, then no.The Quran is in the language of Arabic, the same Arabic that is spoken all across the middle-east as the standard language. Countries and tribes do however, maintain their own accents and sayings, from region to region.This is noticable to an extreme in North Africa.
The main language spoken by Arabic people is Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), which is used in formal settings, literature, and media. In addition to MSA, Arabic people also speak various dialects of Arabic that differ from country to country and region to region.