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
  
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
  
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.
  
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Bengali and Assamese
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Oriya-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
آسف
  
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Baleswari
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
India
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Ganjami
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Kosli
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
33.00 million
  
34
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
  
French Name
arabe
  
oriya
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Oriya-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[ˈoɽia]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Odias
  
Origin
512 CE
  
3 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
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Standard Odia
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
or
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
ori
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
ori
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
ori
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
macr1269
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available