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Native speakers of Arabic generally do not distinguish between "Modern Standard Arabic" and "Classical Arabic" as separate languages; they refer to both as Fusha Arabic or ' ??????? ??????, meaning "the most eloquent Arabic". They consider the two forms to be two historical periods of one language. When the distinction is made, they do refer to MSA as ' ???? ?????, meaning "Contemporary Fusha" or "Modern Fusha", and to CA as ' ???? ??????, meaning "Hereditary Fusha" or "Historical