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
  
India, Nepal
  
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
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
آسف
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
arabe
  
népalais
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
512 CE
  
19 BC
  
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
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative