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
  
Israel
  
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
  
Israel
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Israel
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Academy of the Hebrew 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.
  
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Arabic and Aramaic languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Aramaic Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Hebrew-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Vowels
0
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Hebrew
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
שלום (Shalom)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
תודה (Toda)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
בבקשה (bevekshah)
  
Sorry
آسف
  
סליחה! (Slicha)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
להתראות (Lehitraot)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
בבקשה!
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Ashkenazi Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Israel
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Samaritan Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Israel, Palestine
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Yemenite Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Israel
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
9.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
4.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
5.60 million
  
27
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Israeli, Ivrit
  
French Name
arabe
  
hébreu
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Hebräisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Not Available
  
Origin
512 CE
  
1000 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Canaanitic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Modern Hebrew
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Signed Hebrew
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
he
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
heb
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
heb
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
heb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
hebr1246
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
12-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic