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
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
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
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Armenian
Derived From
Not Available
Latin
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
مرحبا
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
شكرا
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
تصبح على خير
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
مساء الخير
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
صباح الخير
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
من فضلك
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
آسف
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
I Love You
أحبك
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
اعذرني
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Greece
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Sudan
Italy
Dialect 3
Levantine
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
arabe
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Arabisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Arabs
Greeks or Hellenes
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Hellenic
Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Greek
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
ells
Glottocode
arab1395
gree1276
Linguasphere
12-AAC
56-AAA-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Arabic and Greek Speaking population
Arabic and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Arabic and Greek on Arabic vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Arabic and Greek Language Codes
Arabic and Greek language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Greek Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.