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
  
Philippines
  
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
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Philippines
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
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
  
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
  
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.
  
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Hiligaynon Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Island of Cebu
  
Alphabets in
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Cebuano-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Hoy
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Salamat
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Kumusta man ka?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Maayong Hapon
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Maayong Buntag
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Palihug
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Ikasubo ko
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Babay
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Gihigugma ko ikaw
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Ekskyus mi
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Boholano
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Bohol
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Southern Kana
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
southern Leyte
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
North Kana
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
northern part of Leyte
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
14.50 million
  
19
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Visayan
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
  
French Name
arabe
  
cebuano
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Cebuano
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Cebuano people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
16th century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Standard Cebuano
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
cebu1242
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available