THE PRESENT STUDY IS A TRANSLATION OF THE WORK "STROI ARABSKOGO YAZYKA" BY THE EMINENT RUSSIAN LINGUIST AND SEMITICS SCHOLAR, N.Y. YUSHMANOV. IT DEALS CONCISELY WITH THE POSITION OF ARABIC AMONG THE SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND THE RELATION OF THE LITERARY (CLASSICAL) LANGUAGE TO THE VARIOUS MODERN SPOKEN DIALECTS, AND PRESENTS A CONDENSED BUT COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY OF ARABIC PHONOLOGY AND GRAMMAR. PAGES FROM SAMPLE TEXTS ARE INCLUDED. THIS REPORT IS AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY MOSHE PERLMANN. (TC)