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
  
Indonesia
  
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
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Not Available
  
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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Halo
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
arabe
  
javanais
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
512 CE
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Javanese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
java1253
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative