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
  
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
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Africa
  
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
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
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.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Habari
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
من فضلك
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
آسف
  
pole
  
Bye
وداعا
  
bye
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Zanzibar island
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Dar es Salaam
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
15.00 million
  
40
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
arabe
  
swahili
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
512 CE
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Swahili
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available