What are the different types of Arabic spoken and written?

Answer 1

bosha is mostly right. He's got the dialects right except Iraqi is not a shami dialect. I speak shami and I cirtainly don't always understand Iraqis. Iraqi is it's own dialect.

ignore that comment about farsi. It's not arabic at all. It's not even in the same language family. Arabic is a semetic language and farsi is indo-european. Hebrew is closer to arabic than farsi is.

Answer 2

Three groups:
The Coranic Arabic as written in the Coran
The Classical Arabic as spoken officially throughout the Arab world and understood by All - no exception-
The slangs (there are more than 600 slangs in the 22 different Arabic Countries) specific to countries and groups of people.

Answer 3

Bosha is right:
Different types of spoken Arabic:
Egyptian colloquial Arabic
Khaliji Arabic (Gulf area )
Shami Arabic (Syria, Lebanon , Jordan, Iraq, Palestine )
Maghribi Araic ( Morroco,Tunisia, Algeria, Libya )
Sudanese Arabic

but also don't forget Farsi this is a very popular dialect

Answer 4

Different types of spoken Arabic:
Egyptian colloquial Arabic
Khaliji Arabic (Gulf area )
Shami Arabic (Syria, Lebanon , Jordan, Iraq, Palestine )
Maghribi Araic ( Morroco,Tunisia, Algeria, Libya )
Sudanese Arabic

Answer 5

the arabic has 2 talking languages:one that everyone knows and the other is different from country to anthor like egypt has different accent comparing to lebanon.but they all write the same

Answer 6

Basicly it's either formal or informal.
however, there are many informal accents, almost each country has a different accent, but they are not that different from each other.
there is a new slang accent for text messaging and net chatting.

Answer 7

pinky is right