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English: This map shows all countries where the Arabic alphabet has some official use.
 
Arabic is the sole official script.
  • Mid-dark green: Arabic is the only official script, but other scripts find recognition. [no longer used]
 
The Arabic script is official alongside other scripts.
 
The Arabic script finds some recognition, e.g. as a script for a provincial official language, or as a secondary script of the national language.
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Author Abjiklam, Mahmudmasri, Sudhir.swarnkar
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  • 2011-09-28 01:15 Abjiklam 1933×1049× (243728 bytes) new, more precise, classification. +India
  • 2011-09-23 01:34 Abjiklam 1911×1071× (240741 bytes) official usage
  • 2011-09-21 19:04 Mahmudmasri 1165×645× (165237 bytes) Tunisia
  • 2011-09-21 18:30 Mahmudmasri 1165×645× (165181 bytes) Updates: Some places use Arabic script (in Arabic language) less likely than other Latin-based scripts in other languages, such as Spanish, French, English
  • 2011-09-17 19:01 Abjiklam 1165×645× (124573 bytes) updated: only Arabic script is official in: Western Sahara, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan (without South Sudan), Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen, Oman, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan Arabic script is not the
  • 2011-07-15 14:51 Sudhir.swarnkar 600×331× (18967 bytes)

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current08:06, 14 March 2023Thumbnail for version as of 08:06, 14 March 20231,933 × 1,049 (302 KB)Kwamikagami (talk | contribs)kurdish in Latin is Syria (Rojava), not Iraq
01:25, 27 February 2023Thumbnail for version as of 01:25, 27 February 20231,933 × 1,049 (302 KB)Kwamikagami (talk | contribs)fix Comoros; TZ but not Israel per WP-en articles
01:07, 27 February 2023Thumbnail for version as of 01:07, 27 February 20231,933 × 1,049 (301 KB)Kwamikagami (talk | contribs)tajikistan
00:55, 27 February 2023Thumbnail for version as of 00:55, 27 February 20231,933 × 1,049 (301 KB)Kwamikagami (talk | contribs)even color distribution -- the two light greens were nearly indistinguishable
21:34, 25 February 2023Thumbnail for version as of 21:34, 25 February 20231,933 × 1,049 (300 KB)Kwamikagami (talk | contribs)Kabyle coofficial in Algeria since 2016, so map now only 3 shades
07:38, 13 November 2018Thumbnail for version as of 07:38, 13 November 20181,933 × 1,049 (268 KB)Sarvathi (talk | contribs)Arabic has been abolished as an official language of Israel and demoted to a lower status, thus colored in pale green.
08:45, 28 May 2018Thumbnail for version as of 08:45, 28 May 20181,933 × 1,049 (268 KB)Sarvathi (talk | contribs)Western Sahara is officially bilingual, though unenforced
22:33, 25 September 2017Thumbnail for version as of 22:33, 25 September 20171,933 × 1,049 (238 KB)OgreBot (talk | contribs)(BOT): Reverting to most recent version before archival
22:33, 25 September 2017Thumbnail for version as of 22:33, 25 September 20171,911 × 1,071 (235 KB)OgreBot (talk | contribs)(BOT): Uploading old version of file from en.wikipedia; originally uploaded on 2011-09-23 01:34:37 by Abjiklam
22:33, 25 September 2017Thumbnail for version as of 22:33, 25 September 20171,165 × 645 (161 KB)OgreBot (talk | contribs)(BOT): Uploading old version of file from en.wikipedia; originally uploaded on 2011-09-21 19:04:59 by Mahmudmasri
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