Arabic

[Fredrik Ekman]

On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Elmo wrote:
> Arabic is spoken across the whole of super-Saharan Africa; one of my
> experimental collaborators is from Morocco and one of his languages is Arabic.
> It's apparently spoken--at least occasionally--anywhere that's heavily Muslim.

While this is true, it is also interesting to know that while the spoken 
forms of Arabic vary quite a lot (don't ask me how much, though), the 
written language is the same all over the muslim world.

  /F