1 Countries
1.1 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
Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 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
Gambia, Nigeria
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
1.9 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
تصبح على خير
mai kyau dare
3.5 Good Evening
مساء الخير
barka da yamma
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Ghana
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
452.00 million50.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
206.00 million35.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
246.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
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5.5 Ethnicity
Arabs
Hausa–Fulani people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Hausa
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional