1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
1.9 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
مرحبا
3.2 Thank You
شكرا
3.3 How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
3.4 Good Night
تصبح على خير
3.5 Good Evening
مساء الخير
3.6 Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
3.7 Good Morning
صباح الخير
3.8 Please
من فضلك
3.9 Sorry
آسف
3.10 Bye
وداعا
3.11 I Love You
أحبك
3.12 Excuse Me
اعذرني
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Maghrebi
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Sudanese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sudan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Levantine
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
Rank: 3 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
Rank: 4 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
4.43 %
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
206.00 million
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
5.3.4 French Name
arabe
5.3.5 German Name
Arabisch
5.4 Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
5.5 Ethnicity
Arabs
6 History
6.1 Origin
512 CE
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Semitic
6.2.2 Branch
North Arabic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ar
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
ara
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
ara
7.3 ISO 639 3
ara
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
arab1395
7.6 Linguasphere
12-AAC
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic