This is the history of the Arabic language, which connects history, religion, and global influence. Arabic is part of the Semitic language family and is related to Hebrew and Aramaic. The Nabataeans shaped the first written Arabic using the Aramaic script. By 400 AD, Arabic was spoken across the Arabian Peninsula. The Quraysh dialect spoken in Mecca became the foundation for the Quran revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. Caliph Uthman later standardized Arabic by compiling the Quran into a single u