Map predominant Muslim settlement, using the Arabic language to a greater or lesser extent.
Why Arabic learning is a hot topic?
The Arab countries occupy a vast area (13.8 million km2), extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the West to the Indian Ocean in the East, from Turkey in the north to tropical Africa in the South; their population — more than 300 million people.
Arabic is one of the six working languages of the United Nations Oragnization.
In addition, the classical Arabic — a language of the Qur’an and most of the Muslim prayers, but when you consider that the total number of people who practice Islam according to various sources is estimated between 1.5 and 1.77 billion people, representing 23% of the population. Thus the total number of people using the Arabic language can be up to 2 billion people.