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
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Not Available
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
تصبح على خير
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
مساء الخير
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
وداعا
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
South Africa
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
452.00 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
206.00 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
246.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
isiXhosa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
isiXhosa
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Signed Xhosa
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available