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, Pakistan
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
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Thank You
شكرا
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
تصبح على خير
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
مساء الخير
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
صباح الخير
گڈ مارننگ
Please
من فضلك
براہ مہربانی
I Love You
أحبك
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
اعذرني
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Sudan
India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
South Asia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Bihari
German Name
Arabisch
Urdu
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Arabs
Not Available
Origin
512 CE
12th Century CE
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
North Arabic
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Standard Urdu
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Signed Urdu
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
urdu1245
Linguasphere
12-AAC
59-AAF-q
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Arabic and Urdu Speaking population
Arabic and Urdu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Urdu languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Urdu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 %. 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 Urdu on Arabic vs Urdu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Arabic and Urdu Language Codes
Arabic and Urdu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Urdu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.