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
  
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
  
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
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Israel, Mauritius
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
  
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.
  
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Konkani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Marathi-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
آسف
  
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
बाय (Bāya)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Maharashtrian Konkani
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Kokan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Varhadi
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Vidarbha
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
7,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Khandeshi
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Khandesh
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
1,900,000.00
  
15
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
71.00 million
  
25
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
68.00 million
  
16
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
3.00 million
  
32
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
मराठी (marāṭhī)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
  
French Name
arabe
  
marathe
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Marathi
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Marathi people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
10th century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Maharashtri Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Marathi
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
mr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
mar
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
mar
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
mar
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
mara1378
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
omr
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available