1 Countries
1.1 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
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 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
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
شكرا
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
تصبح على خير
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
مساء الخير
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
صباح الخير
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
من فضلك
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
أحبك
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
اعذرني
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
452.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
206.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
246.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional