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
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
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
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
سلام
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
من فضلك
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
آسف
  
متاسف
  
Bye
وداعا
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
arabe
  
persan
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Persian people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic