How widespread is the use of the North Arabic, or Arabic, language in the Middle East and beyond?

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North Arabic, or Arabic, was confined largely to the Arabian Peninsula until the 7th cent. AD Thereafter the spread of Islam took the Arabic language into the Fertile Crescent and across North Africa. Today Arabic is spoken throughout the Arabian Peninsula and also in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Mauritania, and Chad. It is the mother tongue of over 180 million people in Africa and Asia.