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
  
Brunei, Malaysia, 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
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Hai
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
من فضلك
  
sila
  
Sorry
آسف
  
maaf
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Not Available
  
French Name
arabe
  
malais
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Not Available
  
Origin
512 CE
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
stan1306
  
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
  
Agglutinative