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
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
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
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Not Available
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Abkhazia
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
0.13 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
arabe
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative