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.
  
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Old German Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Prakrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
शुभः सायंकालः
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
शुभ दुपार
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
कृपया (kripayā)
  
Sorry
آسف
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
14.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
14.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Not Available
  
French Name
arabe
  
sanskrit
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Sanskrit
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Not Available
  
Origin
512 CE
  
2000 B.C.
  
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
  
Vedic Sanskrit
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Sanskrit
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
sa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
san
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
san
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
san
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
sans1269
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Ancient
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic