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
  
Haiti
  
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
  
Haiti
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Central America, North America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Cuba
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
  
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.
  
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
French Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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HaitianCreole-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Bonjou
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Mèsi
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Kijan ou yé?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Bon nwit
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Bonswa
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Bon apre-midi
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Bon apre-midi
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Souple
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Dezole
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Babay
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Mwen renmen w
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Eskize m
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Northern Haitian Creole
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Cap-Haitien
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Central Haitian Creole
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Port-au-Prince
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Southern Haitian Creole
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Cayes
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
9.60 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
9.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Kreyòl ayisyen
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
  
French Name
arabe
  
haïtien; créole haïtien
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[kɣejɔl]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Haitians
  
Origin
512 CE
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European 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
  
Haitian Creole
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
ht
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
hat
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
hat
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
hat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
hait1244
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
51-AAC-cb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available