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is saying " i am arabic incorrect

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Yes it is incorrect! the word "arabic" applies only to things not to humans! To describe yourself or another person, you should use the word "Arab".

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AnonymousYes it is incorrect! the word "arabic" applies only to things not to humans! To describe yourself or another person, you should use the word "Arab".

This is my chin of thought along the line of the question which may need an expert to critique.

is the motherland of all Chinese.

The Great Wall is the symbol of .

In contrast with the sentence in question, ”I am Chinese” = I am of Chinese origin

If this chain of thought hold true, then

I am “Arabic” should be considered correct. To support my curiosity, I did some digging.

Arabic ['ær?b?k]

n

(Linguistics / Languages) the language of the Arabs, spoken in a variety of dialects; the official language of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, the Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. It is estimated to be the native language of some 75 million people throughout the world. It belongs to the Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages and has its own alphabet, which has been borrowed by certain other languages such as Urdu

adj

(Social Science / Peoples) (Linguistics / Languages) (Placename) denoting or relating to this language, any of the peoples that speak it, or the countries in which it is spoken

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

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