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
  
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
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
  
Portugal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
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.
  
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Olá
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
obrigado
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Como você está?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
boa noite
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
boa Noite
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
boa Tarde
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
bom Dia
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Por Favor
  
Sorry
آسف
  
pesaroso
  
Bye
وداعا
  
tchau
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Eu te amo
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
desculpe me
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Brazil
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
204,000,000.00
  
4
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
European Portuguese
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Portugal
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Daman and Diu
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
231.00 million
  
7
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
216.00 million
  
5
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Português
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Português
  
French Name
arabe
  
portugais
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Portugiesisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Origin
512 CE
  
3rd Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Romance
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Medieval Galician
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Portuguese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Signed Portuguese
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
pt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
por
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
por
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
por
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
port1283
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
51-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available