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
  
Myanmar
  
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
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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.
  
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
آسف
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
arabe
  
birman
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating