Speaking as an Arab, I would say Mashriq, but then again my dialect is Egyptian which is quite a bit different to the dialects in the Mashriq area.

Um, what? I think you're confusing with roots, not words.

I may be, I haven't really looked at this stuff for a while.

Actually, it turns out I'm not making this up, although I may be misinterpreting it. It is actually a real thing that exists though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad

(Arabic is an abjad script)

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Well, you probably know better than I do if you're an arabic speaker.

No, it's the worst tongue of them all.

Learn Russian! It is greatest tongue! And Polish and Serbian!

(/j)

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Spanish clinks the best to me, and it's way easier than Russian.

Anonym, Arabic is not an easy language to understand for a foreign learner whatsoever. It's one of the most difficult languages to understand out there, and if you think that the grammar is easy, you're either extremely well learned or you just don't know what you're talking about.

Fantastic for you Anonym, no one is insulting your linguistic talents, all I said was that Arabic grammar is a very hard concept to grasp and understand well.

Yes Tabby the written grammar is quite difficult, so writing and reading wouldn't come easy, but general speech just falls into place quite fast with vocabulary and the basic grammar.

And as for letters, that might be difficult for a a new learner as their are multiple different ways a letter can be shown depending on their placement in the word and depending on the writer.

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On the subject of the map itself, do you guys think I should split up the large iraq territories?