Answer: Arabic
Explanation:
Among the official languages most spoken in the northern part of the African continent (composed by Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Tunisia) are:
Arabic (being the first most spoken), Berber, French, Spanish and English.
It should be noted, that <u>the Arabic language belongs to the southern Semitic branch of the Afro-Asian family, sharing linguistic roots with other languages such as Aramaic and Hebrew.</u>
In addition, Arabic as a language is mainly classified as follows:
<u>-Classic Arabic</u>, used in ancient literature and the Quran. It is considered a <u>formal arabic </u>in all the countries in which Arabic is spoken.
<u>- Maghreb Arabic</u>, spoken in North Africa.
<u>- Southern Arabic</u>, spoken in the Arabian Peninsula.
<u>- Andalusian Arabic</u>, <u>a dialect of the Arabic language spoken in Al-Andalus,</u> a territory of the Iberian Peninsula (curently modern Spain and Portugal) that was part of the Islamic world between the eighth and fifteenth centuries. <u>It is currently extinct and is a dead language.</u>