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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
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
234
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
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
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Africa
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
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
1.9 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2824
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
85
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2821
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Arabic
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
43
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks36 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
مرحبا
Habari
3.2 Thank You
شكرا
Asante
3.3 How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
Habari gani?
3.4 Good Night
تصبح على خير
Usiku mwema
3.5 Good Evening
مساء الخير
Habari za jioni
3.6 Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
nzuri Alasiri
3.7 Good Morning
صباح الخير
Habari za asubuhi
3.8 Please
من فضلك
tafadhali
3.9 Sorry
آسف
pole
3.10 Bye
وداعا
bye
3.11 I Love You
أحبك
nakupenda
3.12 Excuse Me
اعذرني
Samahani
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Kiunguja
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Zanzibar island
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Sudanese
Kimrima
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sudan
Dar es Salaam
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00NA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Levantine
Kimgao
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Kilwa
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00NA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
2612
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
452.00 million150.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
4.43 %NA
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
206.00 million15.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
246.00 millionNA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
5.3.4 French Name
arabe
swahili
5.3.5 German Name
Arabisch
Swahili
5.4 Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Arabs
Swahili people or Waswahili
6 History
6.1 Origin
512 CE
6th century
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Semitic
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
North Arabic
Bantu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Swahili
6.3.3 Language Position
25NA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ar
sw
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
ara
swa
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
ara
swa
7.3 ISO 639 3
ara
swa
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
arab1395
swah1254
7.6 Linguasphere
12-AAC
99-AUS-m
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available

Arabic and Swahili Alphabets

Arabic and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Arabic and Swahili. In Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Arabic and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Arabic and Swahili languages. The Arabic phonology consist Arabic vowels and Arabic consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Arabic greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Arabic and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Arabic and Swahili Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Arabic and Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Arabic and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Arabic are spoken in different Arabic Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Arabic vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi, Sudanese. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Arabic and Swahili Speaking population

Arabic and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Arabic and Swahili on Arabic vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Swahili Language Codes

Arabic and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.