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
  
European Union, Latvia
  
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
  
Latvia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Europe
  
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
  
Latvian State Language Center
  
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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Lithuanian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Sveiki
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Paldies
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Kā jums klājas?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Ar labunakti
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Labvakar
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Labdien
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Labrīt
  
Please
من فضلك
  
lūdzu
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Piedodiet!
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Uz redzēšanos
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Es tevi mīlu
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Piedodiet!
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Livonian
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Latvia
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Middle Latvian
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Latvia
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
High Latvian
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
France, Latvia
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
1.75 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
1.75 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
latviešu valoda
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Lettish
  
French Name
arabe
  
letton
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Lettisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Latvians or Letts
  
Origin
512 CE
  
1530
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Baltic
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Latvian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Latvian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
lv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
lav
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
lav
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
lav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
latv1249
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
54-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic