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
  
China
  
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
  
China
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
  
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.
  
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Uzbek Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Gokturk Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Ässalamu läykum.
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
rakhmat
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Please
من فضلك
  
birdam
  
Sorry
آسف
  
kachurung
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Khayr khosh
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
sizni yahshi kOrman
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Kachurung
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Turpan
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
China
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Hotan
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Lop Nur
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
10.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
  
French Name
arabe
  
ouïgour
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Uigurisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Uyghur
  
Origin
512 CE
  
11
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Uyghur
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
ug
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
uig
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
uig
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
uig
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
uigh1240
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available