Arabic
Arabic is the largest member of the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as a first language, most of whom live in the Middle East and North Africa, and by 250 million more as a second language.
Written in Arabic script.
Additions to the element names: ² = alternative form † = form no longer in use.
N.B. Because of the use of UTF8-encoding, accented letters (È, á, ô, etc.) are not alphabetized in the correct way.
Source:
Arabian names: الجدول الدوري Transcriptions: List sent to my by John Monastra of Virginia (United States), who is currently working on a book on the etymology of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish loanwords in English.
