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Arabic (' or ') is a Central Semitic language that was first spoken in Iron Age northwestern Arabia and is now the lingua franca of the Arab world.

Arabic is also the liturgical language of 1.7 billion Muslims.

It is one of six official languages of the United Nations.

It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living from Mesopotamia in the east to the Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west, and from northwestern Arabia to the Sinai in the south.

Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.

By most measures, Italian, together with Sardinian, is the closest to Latin of the Romance languages.

French (or) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages.

French has evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul.

Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted.

French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders.

Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole.

A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as "Francophone" in both English and French.

Spanish—also called Castilian—is a Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain, with hundreds of millions of native speakers around the world.

It is usually considered the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese.

German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

It is the most widely spoken and (co) official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol (Italy), the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein.

It is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg.

Major languages which are most similar to German include other members of the West Germanic language branch, such as Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish.

It is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English.