Arabic as predominant language

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Binary
Value labels	1 = Yes, 0 = No
Technical name	cult_lang_arabic
Category	Culture
Label	Arabic as predominant language
Related indicators	Arabic as predominant language English as predominant language Spanish as predominant language Albanian Language Group French based Language Group Georgian Language Group Germanic Language Group Greek Language Group Indo-Iranian Language Group Italic Language Group Japonic Language Group Kam-Tai Language Group Kongo-based Language Group Koreanic Language Group Armenian Language Group Malayo-Polynesian Language Group Mande Language Group Mon-Khmer Language Group Mongolic Eastern Language Group Ngbandi based Language Group Semitic Language Group Tibeto-Burman Language Group Tupi-Guarani Language Group Turkic Eastern Language Group Turkic Southern Language Group Atlantic-Congo Language Group Turkic Western Language Group Uralic Language Group Balto-Slavic Language Group Chadic Language Group Chinese Language Group Cushitic Language Group English based Language Group Finnic Language Group

The predominant language spoken is Arabic

Coding rules

This variable is a binary variable showing whether the predominant language spoken in a country is the hegemonic language of English.

For further information see the Technical Paper: Besche-Truthe, Fabian; Seitzer, Helen; Windzio, Michael. 2020 “Cultural Spheres – Creating a dyadic dataset of cultural proximity”. SFB 1342 Technical Paper Series, 5. Bremen, SFB 1342.

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Misc

Project manager(s): Fabian Besche-Truthe, Michael Windzio, Helen Seitzer

Data release:

• Version 0.001: Initial release

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