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
  
Estonia, European Union
  
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
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
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
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Tere
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Palun
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
0.95 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
arabe
  
estonien
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Estonians
  
Origin
512 CE
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative