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
  
Fiji, India
  
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
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Hindi.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
آسف
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
arabe
  
hindi
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic