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
  
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
  
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, Island of Madura
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- There is unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
- Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Malay and Javanese Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Madurese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
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
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Kangean
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Bawean
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Bangkalan
  
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
15.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
15.00 million
  
40
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Madurese
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura
  
French Name
arabe
  
madourais
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Maduresisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Madurese
  
Origin
512 CE
  
Not Available
  
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
  
Madurese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
mad
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
mad
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
mad
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
madu1247
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available