Arabic is not one language, but a family of languages, with "Standard Arabic" serving as an almost artificial lingua-franca, that no one actually can speak nati

Arabic is not one language, but a family of languages, with "Standard Arabic" serving as an almost artificial lingua-franca, that no one actually can speak natively. I say almost artificial because it has never been any body's native language at any point in time. Now, Classical Arabic, theoretically was the native language of certain tribes in the Hijaz region (of modern day Saudi Arabia) some 1400 years ago. Standard Arabic is a modernized version of Classical Arabic. Some vocabulary have almost completely different meanings, and a large number of modern collocations would probably make no sense to the native speakers of Classical Arabic if they were alive today.