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
  
Philippines
  
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
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Filipinos
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia, Australia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
  
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Tagalog-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Baybayin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Kamusta
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Salamat po
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Kamusta ka na?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Magandang gabi
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Magandang gabi po
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Magandang hapon po
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Magandang umaga po
  
Please
من فضلك
  
pakiusap
  
Sorry
آسف
  
pinagsisisihan
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Paálam
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Iniibig kita
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Batangas Tagalog
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Batangas, Gabon
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Bisalog
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Filipino
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
73.00 million
  
24
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
45.00 million
  
13
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Tagalog
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Filipino, Pilipino
  
French Name
arabe
  
tagalog
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Tagalog
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Tagalog people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
1593
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Filipino
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
t1
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
tg1
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
taga1269
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
31-CKA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available