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
  
New Zealand
  
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
  
New Zealand
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Australia, 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
  
Māori Language Commission
  
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.
  
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Tahitian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Hello
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Mauruuru koutou
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
E pēhea ana koe ?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Night pai
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
pai ahiahi
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Afternoon pai
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Morning pai
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Tēnā
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Aroha mai
  
Bye
وداعا
  
poroporoaki
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Aroha ahau ki a koe
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
tukua ahau
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
South Island Māori
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
New Zealand
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Western North Island Maori
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
New Zealand
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Eastern North Island Maori
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
New Zealand
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
0.18 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
0.18 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
te Reo Māori
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
New Zealand Maori
  
French Name
arabe
  
maori
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Maori-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Māori people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
1814
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Polynesian
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Maori
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
mi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
mri
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
mao
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
mri
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
maor1246
  
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